[cw-discuss] file associations for WordPerfect and FrameMaker

Sun Jul 8 14:44:34 CDT 2007

Hi Bodvar,

John Wheaton suggested to look for a Linux tool that would convert a MIF file 
into a PDF file. Have you ever come across such a tool?

Regards, Paul.

On Sunday 08 July 2007 17:23, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
> 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;foru
> > > >m=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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