[cw-discuss] file associations for WordPerfect and FrameMaker

[Bodvar Bjorgvinsson]

Hi Paul,

Thank you for the replies.

As a reply to your latter comment:

PS and MIF exports of FM are text files that include everything that
you put into the FM file, including bookmarks, paging information,
hyperlinks etc. PS adds information on how the "printer device" should
paginate the file etc. What Distiller does (as other PS to PDF
processors do) is to "distill" or compile the PS text file to a PDF
binary. That's it.

MIF is basically a tagged text file that includes every and any
information of the corresponding FM file and can be opened (at least
if unchanged or changed only within given limits, like changing font
names etc.) by FrameMaker itself just as if it were an FM file.

Best regards,

Bodvar Bjorgvinsson

On 7/7/07, PaulFransen <send.me at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I am not at all an expert, but I suspect that PS and MIF do contain formatting
> information but not bookmark information. The extremely useful feature of the
> Acrobat Distiller with FrameMaker combination is the ability to control how
> bookmarks should be generated, especially from a structured FM document.
>
> Regards, Paul.
>
>
> On Saturday 07 July 2007 12:14, you wrote:
> > Have you tried saving to either MIF or PS and then feeding that to a Linux
> > based PDF generator?  It isn't a seamless one-step-process, but that might
> > work (assuming you have a Linux-based PDF generator).
> >
> > On 7/7/07, PaulFransen <send.me at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > > Hello Bodvar,
> > >
> > > I am unable to produce PDF files from FM using Acrobat Distiller running
> > > under
> > > CXO. Also, Acrobat Professional 6 (or higher) is not functioning under
> > > CXO.
> > > There have been many people requesting it to be supported (see
> > > http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=310;forum=1
> > > ) but it is not positioned very high on the Codeweavers lists of votes
> > > and pledges so I don't think it will be supported in the near future.
> > >
> > > I use FM under CXO for editing only and, in my hands (CXO 6.0.1 running
> > > under
> > > SLED10, win98 bottle), it does a satisfactory job. There were some
> > > glitches
> > > in older versions of CXO which have been resolved now. For publishing to
> > > PDF
> > > and subsequent editing of the resulting PDF files with Acrobat
> > > Professional,
> > > I have to resort to Windows (running in a virtual machine under Linux of
> > > course).
> > >
> > > I don't use FrameScript and don't own a copy of it so I have no idea of
> > > whether it works in the CXO environment.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Paul.
> > >
> > > On Thursday 05 July 2007 16:58, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
> > > > Hi Paul,
> > > >
> > > > Sorry to burst in on you with a somewhat different question but it is
> > > > good to hear that someone other than me is using FM this way.
> > > >
> > > > I am wondering whether you have found a solution to how to pdf (save
> > > > as, or print to file and then use Acrobat Distiller 7 to distill).
> > > > This process seems to me to be necessary in order to get all the
> > > > goodies going that FM natively supports. I suppose you have Acrobat 6
> > > > or higher installed too. Do they work together as intended?
> > > >
> > > > I have not done much testing, but I have found FM 7.1 to behave
> > > > somewhat different in CXO older version (4?) than in Windoze. What is
> > > > your experience?
> > > >
> > > > Also, have you tried to use FrameScript in CXO?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you,
> > > >
> > > > Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
> > > > Iceland
> > > >
> > > > On 7/5/07, PaulFransen <send.me at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > > > > I am using WordPerfect X13 and FrameMaker 7.1 in CXO 6 running under
> > >
> > > SuSE
> > >
> > > > > Linux Enterprise Desktop and they both work quite decently. However,
> > > > > I
> > >
> > > am
> > >
> > > > > unable to associate files with .WPD and .FM extensions to these
> > >
> > > programs
> > >
> > > > > and therefore clicking on those files in a KDE Konqueror window won't
> > > > > launch WP or FM. On the other hand, clicking on Word document files
> > > > > launches Word as expected. In the Konqueror settings, one can
> > >
> > > associate
> > >
> > > > > files to programs but a manually set association gets lost after
> > >
> > > closing
> > >
> > > > > the settings window. I can't figure out any difference between the
> > > > > association settings for .DOC files and .WPD/.FM files.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is anyone experiencing the same problem? Has anyone found a solution
> > >
> > > for
> > >
> > > > > it?
> > > > >
> > > > > Best regards, Paul.
> > > > >
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