Does Framemaker 8 and the arabian word version work together?

[zypresse11]

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?

Thank for helping our project getting started!

[Harbs.]

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

Harbs

[zypresse11]

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]

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

[zypresse11]

Thank you very much for your help!

With kind regards!

Am 31.01.2011 um 15:18 schrieb Be.eM:

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

>

[Art_Campbell1]

I haven't done this with Arabian text, but would not try to copy and paste from Word into Frame because you're likely to import all types of hidden characters and unwanted information.

Better is to save the Word file as RTF, then open that in Frame. The Japanese RTF import filter seems much more robust, so I'd specify the document type as that for better upper order character support.

THEN copy and paste into Frame, if necessary.

At some point early in the workflow, they should SaveA MIF in Frame, then open and save that file as .FM in order to remove Word's hidden characters.

[zypresse11]

Thank you very much for your help!

With kind regards!

Am 31.01.2011 um 16:29 schrieb Art_Campbell: