conversion from pagemaker to word

[lrkendall]

I need to convert some 500 files from pagemaker 5.0 to Word, and they contain text boxes, and other graphic information. I need some conversion tool. Word is not helping and on the msoffice website, no help.

Any ideas?

lrkendall

 

[benjamenus]

you almost certainly need to convert from mif to doc ... and almost certainly need a tool. the other news is that, from my experience, you won't get a particularly good conversion if the source doc is at all complex.

here are a couple of starting points for you

http://www.blueberry.com/index.html

ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/computing/information-systems/

http://www/tools/translators/miftran/

 

[Dreamboat]

Ben, it sure looks like PAGEMaker to me, and not FRAMEMaker.... LOL

Anywayz. The only way I know how is to open the pagemaker file, click on the text, right-click and choose Edit Story. Select it all (ctrl+a) and copy and paste into Word. Sorry, but you'd have to do the same with all the individual textboxes too.

I cannot think of a way outside of a VB program written especially for it to do what you want.

After searching, I see lots of places on the web that want to *convert to Word*, but it's basically saving as plain text and reformatting all over again. Anne Troy

http://www.TheWordExpert.com

http://www.Brainbench.com