From: robert@sys.sweden.dg.COM
Subject: Frame to WP and MS Word filters summary
Organization: The Internet
Distribution: inet
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:03:59 GMT

Quite some time ago, I made a query on what filters there are
to convert Frame documents to WP or MS Word formats and back.
I received a good number of responses, included below:

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From: Alan Koch <ask@SEI.CMU.EDU>

In article <39606@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> you write:
|> Hi everybody,
|> 
|> I'm in need of a filter that converts a MIF file to WP (5.0 or 5.1)
|> or MS Word (the PC version) format, commercial or PD. I'm aware
|> of the Document FilterPak, but it only seems to be able to convert
|> FROM those formats TO FrameMaker format.
|> 

Robert,

The FilterPak 3.0 (which JUST came out) is bi-directional on WordPerfect 5.1.
That is, you can both import and export WP 5.1 documents.

WP is the only bi-directional filter that Frame has published.  Hmmm

ask@sei.cmu.edu

Alan S. Koch
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA  15213

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From: judy@qucis.queensu.ca (Judy Russell)

>I'm in need of a filter that converts a MIF file to WP (5.0 or 5.1)
>or MS Word (the PC version) format, commercial or PD. I'm aware
>of the Document FilterPak, but it only seems to be able to convert
>FROM those formats TO FrameMaker format.

Frame's FilterPak 2.1 DOES include miftowp, however the quality of filtering
isn't great - you will lose something in the transfer (graphics, headers
and footers, variable formats...).

I believe there's supposed to be FilterPak 3.0, I don't know if there's
any improvement made to miftowp.

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From: gary@cirrus.com (Gary Goates)

take a look at Filtrix from Blueberry Software, 7202 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol, California
95472, (707) 829-5443.

gary goates

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From: marty@huey.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Marty Levine)

I believe the Frame to Wordperfect filter exists in FilterPak 3.0.  See the filter 'miftowp'.

Marty Levine
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA  91109
MS 169-214

(818)354-6399
marty@huey.jpl.nasa.gov

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From: Gregory Snead <snead@mdd.comm.mot.com>


The Frame Filter Pak will save to WP 5.1. The name of the filter
is "miftowp."

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Hi everybody,

I'm in need of a filter that converts a MIF file to WP (5.0 or 5.1)
or MS Word (the PC version) format, commercial or PD. I'm aware
of the Document FilterPak, but it only seems to be able to convert
FROM those formats TO FrameMaker format.

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From: kate@node56.medtronic.com (Kate Seastone)

Robert,
  The FrameMaker filterpac for 3.0 ($995 - for suns) contains
a filter to and from FrameMaker to WP 5.0 & 5.1.

We are purchasing it this week - I had inquired from a couple
of users and they said it works great...I will give you my opinion
when we try it out.

Kate Seastone
Medtronic; Micro-Rel division
Tempe, AZ
602-929-5344
kate@urel.medtronic.com

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From: dpm@frame.com

Talk to Robert Hoxie at Dataviz. His number is 203 268-0030. The
product is called MacLink Plus/PC.

-David McCutcheon

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From: leeh7@fel2sn1.fel.tno.nl (Ed van Leeuwen)

                            FRAMEMAKER FILTERS
                            ------------------
                            
Version:	3.
Date:		11 September 1991.

===============================================================================

INTRODUCTION
------------

This is a file containing information about filters for the FrameMaker
product. It is split into three parts:
-	free products,
-	shareware products, and
-	commercial products.

The filters of the free and shareware products can be found at anonymous
FTP sites or by asking the creator. Should this give any problems,
feel free to contact me.

If you have any remarks, additional information or new filters,
please send e-mail to the address given below.

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Ed W.A. van Leeuwen                            Ed.van.Leeuwen@tnofel.fel.tno.nl
TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
The Hague, the Netherlands

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ANONYMOUS FTP SITES FOR FRAMEMAKER'S FILTERS
--------------------------------------------

The ftp sites mentioned below give access to the filters which have
availability "FTP", unless stated otherwise:

irisa.irisa.fr			/FrameMaker/Filters
procyon.cis.ksu.edu		/pub/FUN/Filters
sunbane.engrg.uwo.ca		/pub/fun/filters

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FREE PRODUCTS
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bib		- convert references to MML

creator:	Oscar Nierstrasz (oscar@cui.unige.ch)
hardware:	Unix platforms
availability:	FTP
description:
   The shell and awk scripts provided here will translate refer files to
   various formats including TeX and Framemaker MML format.  The translation
   scripts attempt to properly introduce italics, quotation marks and accents.
   The main script is called "bib" and takes various options.

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dca.am.mac	- improve conversion of DCA to MIF

creator:	Michael Hardy (mhardy@acorn.co.uk)
hardware:	Unix platforms with "dcatomif"
availability:	FTP
description:
   A version of the configuration file supplied with Frame's dcatomif
   filter, altered to improve its handling of DCA files produced by MS-Word
   on the Mac. (This is an old filter; not having had to import MS-Word for
   a while, I'm not aware if Frame now provide a better method of doing so.)

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epsf2epsi	- convert EPSF to EPSI

creator:	Russell Sutherland (russ@artsci.utoronto.ca)
hardware:	Sun3, Sun4
availability:	FTP
description:
   This is a first attempt at providing Un*x users with a filter
   to convert Encapsulated Postscript Files (exported from PC applications)
   from EPSF to EPSI format. The filter expects the image to be stored
   in TIFF format and requires the use of Sam Leffler's TIFF library.

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GCalToMML	- convert GCal documents to MML

creator:	Michael Hardy (mhardy@acorn.co.uk)
hardware:	Unix platforms
availability:	FTP
note from the "creator":
   I didn't write this; I can't say what assumptions it
   may make over GCal libraries used, etc.

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mm2frame	- translate troff commands to MML

creator:	David Wheeler (wheeler@ida.org)
hardware:	Unix platforms
availability:	FTP
description:
   mm2frame is a program for translating basic troff/mm commands into
   Framemaker. Currently this is a VERY simplistic translator.
   It does not handle preprocessor commands, such as tables, equations, or
   pictures (tbl, eqn, pic), it ignores many parameters (such as .LI x), it
   ignores all combination of troff and the mm macros variables, and handles
   only a limited subset of the combination of troff and the mm macros commands.

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plt2mif		- convert Versetec ".plt" files to MIF

creator:	Glenn Lewis (glewis@pcocd2.intel.com)
hardware:	Sun4, Sun386i
availability:	FTP

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ps2mif		- convert general PostScript files to MIF

creator:	Glenn Lewis (glewis@pcocd2.intel.com)
hardware:	Sun4, Sun386i
availability:	not yet released

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pstoepsi	- convert arbitrary PostScript files to EPSI/EPSF format

creator:	Doug Crabill (dgc@cs.purdue.edu)
hardware:	Sun4 (other hardware not tested)
availability:	FTP
description:
   This program converts arbitrary PostScript to Encapsulated PostScript
   (BoundingBox information) with a bitmap representation of the image in
   comments (EPSI/EPSF format).  It doesn't require unnecessary printing
   and hand editing of PostScript source to calculate BoundingBox information
   (as is needed with bb.ps).

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stripframes.c	- convert old layout to new

creator:	Michael Hardy (mhardy@acorn.co.uk)
hardware:	Unix platforms
availability:	at request
description:
   A C program that takes a MIF file, and moves headings from anchored
   frames beside paragraphs to being in-line before a paragraph. It's
   only likely to be of use to someone who wishes to do a very similar job,
   and who understands C.
   This was used to help automate the conversion of a large number of
   manuals from an old layout to a new one. There is also an associated
   script that produces the MIF files, and converts them back to binary
   files afterwards.

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trc2mif		- convert MOSSIM trace files ".trc" to MIF

creator:	Glenn Lewis (glewis@pcocd2.intel.com).
hardware:	Sun4, Sun386i
availability:	FTP

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PBM/PGM/PPM	- convert various graphics formats

creator:	Jef Poskanzer (jef@well.sf.ca.us)
hardware:	Unix platforms
availability:	FTP -> uunet.uu.net 
description:

PBM handles the following formats:

    Sun icon file				reading	writing
    Sun raster file				reading	writing
    X10 and X11 bitmap file			reading	writing
    MacPaint					reading	writing
    CMU window manager format			reading	writing
    MGR format					reading	writing
    Group 3 FAX					reading	writing
    X11 window dump file			reading	writing
    X10 window dump file			reading
    Xerox doodle brushes			reading
    GEM .img format				reading
    PC paintbrush (.pcx) format			reading
    PICT					reading
    ASCII graphics					writing
    HP LaserJet format					writing
    GraphOn graphics					writing
    BBN BitGraph graphics				writing
    Printronix format					writing

PGM handles the following formats:

    TIFF					reading
    Usenix FaceSaver file			reading
    HIPS					reading
    FITS					reading	writing
    PostScript "image" data			reading
    raw grayscale bytes				reading
    Encapsulated PostScript				writing

PPM handles the following formats:

    color Sun raster file			reading	writing
    GIF						reading	writing
    Amiga IFF ILBM				reading	writing
    color X11 window dump file			reading	writing
    color X10 window dump file			reading
    MTV ray-tracer output			reading
    QRT ray-tracer output			reading
    TrueVision Targa file			reading
    Img-whatnot file				reading
    color Encapsulated PostScript			writing

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prog2mif	- load C-programs into Framemaker

creator:	Hermann Kneissel (hermann@danetis.uucp)
hardware:	Unix platforms
availability:	FTP
description:
   The main function of this filter is to read a c-program file without
   changing the format (Space->Hardspace, Newline->HardReturn, the whole
   File one Paragraph).

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XpsToEPS	- convert xwd/xpr Postscript to EPS

creator:	Michael Hardy (mhardy@acorn.co.uk)
hardware:	Unix platforms
availability:	FTP
description:
   Converts PostScript output by xwd and xpr to Encapsulated PostScript with
   a screen image. This is useful for importing X screen dumps on non-X
   platforms. (Note that versions of FrameMaker written to run under X can
   already directly import xwd/xpr PostScript.)

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word2mif	- convert MS-Word 4.0 files to MIF

creator:	Olivier Schopfer (schopfer@divsun.unige.ch)
hardware:	Unix platforms
availability:	FTP
description:
   Filter to convert word processor files from Microsoft Word 4.0
   to Framemaker "MIF" (Maker Interchange Format). The filter supports
   Word's style sheets.
   
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SHAREWARE PRODUCTS
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la2mml		- convert LaTeX to MML

creator:	Nigel Horspool (nigelh@csr.uvic.ca)
hardware:	Sun-3, Sun-4, Macintosh
availability:	FTP  
description:
    The conversion program attempts to translate every standard LaTeX contruct
    that can be reasonably described by a MML file. Some constructuions are
    simply impossible to translate. Other constructs are only represented
    approximately. The MML file is known to be compatible with FrameMaker 2.1. 

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COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS
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Note:	It is strongly recommended that you should order a demo version
	or a version with a temporary version first. You can then find
	out whether your documents convert properly.
	(This is almost a shareware approach, except from the higher
	purchase price)
	
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FilterPak 2.1	- import various formats

creator:	Frame Technology (comments@frame.com)
hardware:	Sun, HP, IBM, Mac, Apollo, 80386/486 PC's running SCO UNIX
description:
   Import formats:
   IAF, WP 5.0, troff, CGM, HPGL, DXF, IGES, C960, CCITTG4, EPSI, DCA

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Filtrix		- convert various formats

creator:	Blueberry Software (FAX 707/829-5380)
hardware:	Sun, MS-DOS (HP/Apollo, DEC 3100, IBM RS6000 : Sept '91)
description:
   Import formats:
	   DCA/RFT
	   DisplayWrite 2, 3, 4 and 5
	   Executive Writer
	   FrameMaker 1.3 and 2.x
	   Interleaf 3.5 and 3.6 (PS), 4 ps and cx or dp printers
	   IslandWrite
	   Leading Edge
	   Microsoft Word
	   Multimate
	   OfficeWriter
	   PC-Write
	   PFS:Write
	   PFS:Professional
	   Q&A Write
	   Samna
	   Spellbinder
	   SunWrite
	   Volkswriter
	   WordPerfect 4.2/5.x
	   WordStar en WS 2000
	   XyWrite

   Export formats:
	   DCA/RFT
	   FrameMaker 1.3 and 2.x
	   Interleaf 3.5 and 3.6 (PS), 4 ps and cx or dp printers
	   IslandWrite
	   Microsoft Word
	   SunWrite
	   WordPerfect 4.2/5.x
	   XyWrite

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Aladdin Software, Norway

Provides various filters.

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triSoft, Belgium

Provides a 2-way WP5.x/Frame filter.
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MacLink PC	- convert various formats

creator:	DataViz Inc., U.S.A. (tel. (203) 268-0030)
hardware:	Sun, MS-DOS (HP/Apollo, DEC 3100, IBM RS6000 : Sept '91)
description:
   2 way conversion of FrameMaker MIF ver 2 & 3 files to:
	Ami Pro
	AppleWorks
	DCA
	MacWrite
	MacWrite II
	MultiMate
	OfficeWriter
	Professional Write
	RTF
	Word
	WordPerfect
	Works
	Wordstar
	WriteNow
	WPS Plus
	XYWrite

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Many thanks to:

Dan Corrin,
Doug Crabill,
Ron Crocker,
Nils Davis,
Bertrand Decouty,
Michael Hardy,
Steve Holden,
Annette Holloway,
Sverre Holm,
Nigel Horspool,
Bo Kahler,
Hermann Kneissel,
Glenn Lewis,
Paul Moriarty,
Oscar Nierstrasz,
Olivier Schopfer,
Steve Strange,
Russell Sutherland,
Ludo Timans,
Harvard Townsend,
David Wheeler

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From: voges@kfk.de (Udo Voges)

We are in the process of developing a filter mif2rtf, 
which is reading mif-output from FrameMaker
and producing RTF format.
The first version will only be able to do the conversion of
text, eg. Umlaut, font type, alignment.
It is supposed to be available in May1992.

-- 
Dr. Udo Voges,  Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH,
Institut fuer Datenverarbeitung in der Technik,
Postfach 3640, W-7500 Karlsruhe, GERMANY
Tel: +49-7247-82-5725
Fax: +49-7247-82-5070 or +49-7247-82-5786
email: voges@idt.kfk.de

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From: hhdf@sunbim.be

>>>	I'm in need of a filter that converts a MIF file to WP (5.0 or 5.1)
	or MS Word (the PC version) format, commercial or PD. I'm aware
	of the Document FilterPak, but it only seems to be able to convert
	FROM those formats TO FrameMaker format.

Indeed, most of the filters provided in Frame's Filterpack 3.0 are
"one way" filters, except the Word Perfect one which also allows conversion
from Maker Interchange Format to WordPerfect.
	
Hubert HENRY de FRAHAN - hhdf@sunbim.be

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From: andy@xinu.tivoli.com

Are you aware of Blueberry Software's Filtrix program ?  It is supposed to 
handle to and from 

	DCA/RFT, DisplayWrite, FrameMaker, WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, etc. 

I haven't used it, but have heard good things about it.  I'd check on just what 
versions of each of the programs you're interested in are supported in which 
direction.

Their address is 

	7207 Bodega Ave.
	Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA

Phone 707/829-5443
FAX   707/829-5380


Andy Rogers
TIVOLI Systems
6034 W. Courtyard Drive
Austin, Texas 78730, USA

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