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GH_OWL
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July 7, 2010
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Need Script to save multiple FrameMaker 9.0 files as .mif

  • July 7, 2010
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I am using FrameMaker 9.0 on a PC.

I have a number of UNIX scripts that work on .mif files.

With the older versions of FrameMaker, I was able to run FrameMaker on Unix and use the batch capabilities to create a script that opened the book and saved each file as a .mif file.

FrameMaker 9.0 is not supported on Unix, so I can't do that any more.

I have found references to scripts that will do the conversion to mif on the PC, but they all talk about older versions of FrameMaker.

What can I use to automatically convert all the files in a book to mif files?

Thanks,

Tim Walker

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    squidds_de
    Participating Frequently
    July 9, 2010

    There are several plug-ins to save .mif and back to .fm

    TOOLBOX for FrameMaker 9 (www.toolboxforme.com) 'FM <> MIF' allows you to generate a complete book in MIF format out of a FrameMaker book in binary format and vice versa: the book and all book components are saved in the respective format.

    TOOLBOX for FrameMaker 9 'Book Transfer (FM<>MIF)' allows you to move a book with all components and generate all .fm files to .mif and vice versa.

    Note: FrameMaker  9 and TOOLBOX save MIF 9 or MIF 7. There is no way to save MIF 8.

    - Georg

    Be.eM
    Be.eM
    Inspiring
    July 9, 2010

    squidds.de wrote:

    Note: FrameMaker  9 and TOOLBOX save MIF 9 or MIF 7. There is no way to save MIF 8.

    … which may be a problem when using MIF files for e.g. Trados, but is definitely not a problem for FM8, which reads FM9 MIF like its own.

    Bernd

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    Anonymous
    July 7, 2010

    OmSys has a free utility called runfm.exe which can do this from the command line:

    http://www.omsys.com/dcl/omni.htm

    If you need additional capability then their Mif2Go utility is an excellent choice.

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