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Tami Settergren
Inspiring
September 30, 2010
Question

RTF files of foreign languages are broken into one line of text per page.

  • September 30, 2010
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When I save an English FM file as RTF, it's fine; but Spanish and Portuguese RTF files are broken up into one line of text per page, so that a 64 page FM document becomes an 819 page RTF file. I tried this with both FM 8 and 9.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Tami

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    Anonymous
    September 30, 2010

    Out of curiosity, if you copy the FM document  by doing Ctrl-a to select all, Ctrl-c to copy it to the clipboard, then paste it into a Word doc, do you still get the same issue with the line endings?

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    Tami SettergrenAuthor
    Inspiring
    September 30, 2010

    Copying and pasting brought the text over ok, but not all of the formatting and custom fonts and none of the figures. But thanks for the suggestion, that could be a work-around if there's no other solution.

    Tami

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    Anonymous
    September 30, 2010

    Interesting result with copy & paste, although not unexpected.  FM's RTF filters (both in and out) are, ahem, what shall we say, "quite limited"  in their scope, antiquity and the RTF "moving target" nature.

    One other way could be to create a PDF and then export as RTF from there.

    Art's suggestion about using the Mif2Go export is by far  the best way to go, because you have so many options on how to configure  things and because the result is far superior. Mif2Go is used this way by a huge number of FM users and particularly those in the translation industry, so you definitely can have good confidence that the results will be accurate. And, last but not least, Mif2Go has excellent, exceptional, user community and support.

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    Art_Campbell1
    Inspiring
    September 30, 2010

    Download the eval version of MIF2Go from omsys.com and see that their RTF output looks like.


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    Tami SettergrenAuthor
    Inspiring
    September 30, 2010

    The omsys website says that the eval version alters the text in the RTF file, so that would not be useful to me. This will probably be the only time I'll ever need to do this, so I would not buy the software. But thanks for the suggestion!

    Tami

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