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zypresse11
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January 31, 2011
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Does Framemaker 8 and the arabian word version work together?

  • January 31, 2011
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Hi,

my client in arabian country works with Framemaker 8 and tries to copy and paste from word into Framemaker and it doesn`t work. Does anybody know, if the arabian word version is supported by Framemaker?

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    Harbs.
    Harbs.
    Legend
    January 31, 2011

    AFAIK, Framemaker does not work with r-t-l text...

    Harbs

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    zypresse11Author
    Participant
    January 31, 2011

    Thank for your soon response.

    Maybe my question was too inconcret. From our side, the word document is written in english in an european word version. The arabian client opens the european word document in an arabian word version and tries to copy and paste the english text from word to framemaker 8. From my understanding this working procedure should be no problem, because no arabic formats are used. Am I right or should they use an european word version (english for example) for copy paste from word into framemaker?

    Thanks in advance

    Be.eM
    Be.eM
    Inspiring
    January 31, 2011

    I have no experience with the arabic Word version (but quite a lot with Arabic documents in general), but I'm pretty sure it should work. However, there are options/preferences you can set for Copy/Paste in the Maker .ini, which may lead to different results or even failures. I don't recall the default order, but AFAIK the "OLE 2" entry is pretty much at the beginning, which generally is a bad choice.

    I've changed this sort order in my *.ini file to:

    ClipboardFormatsPriorities=UNICODE TEXT, TEXT, MIF, RTF, FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIFW

    Note the "UNICODE TEXT" entry at the beginning, which makes it the preferred format for pasting text from other applications. Maybe this is also the solution for the collaboration between FM and the arabic Word version.

    Bernd

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