How can I Import Wordperfect and pdf Documents

Wordperfect documents can be imported using the supplied filters. In newer versions of FM, some of the old formats have been commented out in the maker.ini file. A semi-colon is placed as the first character in the line - just remove the ";" to re-activate the filter(s):

;216="0482" AW4W WordPerfect MIF TextImport "WordPerfect DOS/Win 7.0" aw4w.xxx ^.wp

;217="0481" AW4W WordPerfect MIF TextImport "WordPerfect DOS/Win 6.1" aw4w.xxx ^.wp

;218="0480" AW4W WordPerfect MIF TextImport "WordPerfect DOS/Win 6.0" aw4w.xxx ^.wp

;219="0071" AW4W WordPerfect MIF TextImport "WordPerfect DOS/Win 5.1" aw4w.xxx ^.wp

;220="0070" AW4W WordPerfect MIF TextImport "WordPerfect DOS/Win 5.0" aw4w.xxx ^.wp

;221="0601" AW4W WordPerfect MIF TextImport "WordPerfect Mac 3.0-3.5" aw4w.xxx ^.wp

;222="0600" AW4W WordPerfect MIF TextImport "WordPerfect Mac 2.0-2.1" aw4w.xxx ^.wp

;223="0590" AW4W WordPerfect MIF TextImport "WordPerfect Mac 1.0" aw4w.xxx ^.wp

Depending upon the version of WP used, you may get better results saving as RTF and importing that format into FM.

One little wrinkle though - most of the WP imports won't be properly tagged in FM, i.e. they will all show as a Body tag with overrides. If you then use the FM File > Utilities > Create and Apply Formats, you will end up with dozens of Body1, Body2, Body3, Body4, etc. tags that you would need to remap to an FM template for further maintenance (same goes for the character tags). You may want to use something like Silicon Prairie's Paragraph and Character Tools (see: Silicon Prairie - FrameMaker Products ) to help map the WP tags to FM tags.

One other gotcha, each imported WP file could create different named Body tags, as FM assigns the numbers in the order that a format is encountered, so the Body4 in one FM file, may show as Body6 in another FM file with a WP import. This makes any systematic (re-usable) mapping almost futile. [Sympathies - been there, done that].

Dealing with PDFs, you need to save the content out as RTF in order to import as something that would be maintainable in FM. Otherwise, FM imports PDFs as single page graphics only, so avoid that route (direct PDF import into FM) for building documents from PDFs.