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- FRAMEMAKER FILTERS
- ------------------
-
- Version: 3.
- Date: 11 September 1991.
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-
- INTRODUCTION
- ------------
-
- This is a file containing information about filters for the FrameMaker
- product. It is split into three parts:
- - free products,
- - shareware products, and
- - commercial products.
-
- The filters of the free and shareware products can be found at anonymous
- FTP sites or by asking the creator. Should this give any problems,
- feel free to contact me.
-
- If you have any remarks, additional information or new filters,
- please send e-mail to the address given below.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Ed W.A. van Leeuwen Ed.van.Leeuwen@tnofel.fel.tno.nl
- TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
- The Hague, the Netherlands
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-
- ANONYMOUS FTP SITES FOR FRAMEMAKER'S FILTERS
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-
- The ftp sites mentioned below give access to the filters which have
- availability "FTP", unless stated otherwise:
-
- irisa.irisa.fr /pub/FrameMaker/Filters
- procyon.cis.ksu.edu /pub/FUN/Filters
- sunbane.engrg.uwo.ca /pub/FUN
-
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- FREE PRODUCTS
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-
- bib - convert references to MML
-
- creator: Oscar Nierstrasz (oscar@cui.unige.ch)
- hardware: Unix platforms
- availability: FTP
- description:
- The shell and awk scripts provided here will translate refer files to
- various formats including TeX and Framemaker MML format. The translation
- scripts attempt to properly introduce italics, quotation marks and accents.
- The main script is called "bib" and takes various options.
-
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-
- dca.am.mac - improve conversion of DCA to MIF
-
- creator: Michael Hardy (mhardy@acorn.co.uk)
- hardware: Unix platforms with "dcatomif"
- availability: FTP
- description:
- A version of the configuration file supplied with Frame's dcatomif
- filter, altered to improve its handling of DCA files produced by MS-Word
- on the Mac. (This is an old filter; not having had to import MS-Word for
- a while, I'm not aware if Frame now provide a better method of doing so.)
-
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-
- epsf2epsi - convert EPSF to EPSI
-
- creator: Russell Sutherland (russ@artsci.utoronto.ca)
- hardware: Sun3, Sun4
- availability: FTP
- description:
- This is a first attempt at providing Un*x users with a filter
- to convert Encapsulated Postscript Files (exported from PC applications)
- from EPSF to EPSI format. The filter expects the image to be stored
- in TIFF format and requires the use of Sam Leffler's TIFF library.
-
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-
- GCalToMML - convert GCal documents to MML
-
- creator: Michael Hardy (mhardy@acorn.co.uk)
- hardware: Unix platforms
- availability: FTP
- note from the "creator":
- I didn't write this; I can't say what assumptions it
- may make over GCal libraries used, etc.
-
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-
- mm2frame - translate troff commands to MML
-
- creator: David Wheeler (wheeler@ida.org)
- hardware: Unix platforms
- availability: FTP
- description:
- mm2frame is a program for translating basic troff/mm commands into
- Framemaker. Currently this is a VERY simplistic translator.
- It does not handle preprocessor commands, such as tables, equations, or
- pictures (tbl, eqn, pic), it ignores many parameters (such as .LI x), it
- ignores all combination of troff and the mm macros variables, and handles
- only a limited subset of the combination of troff and the mm macros commands.
-
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-
- plt2mif - convert Versetec ".plt" files to MIF
-
- creator: Glenn Lewis (glewis@pcocd2.intel.com)
- hardware: Sun4, Sun386i
- availability: FTP
-
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- ps2mif - convert general PostScript files to MIF
-
- creator: Glenn Lewis (glewis@pcocd2.intel.com)
- hardware: Sun4, Sun386i
- availability: not yet released
-
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-
- pstoepsi - convert arbitrary PostScript files to EPSI/EPSF format
-
- creator: Doug Crabill (dgc@cs.purdue.edu)
- hardware: Sun4 (other hardware not tested)
- availability: FTP
- description:
- This program converts arbitrary PostScript to Encapsulated PostScript
- (BoundingBox information) with a bitmap representation of the image in
- comments (EPSI/EPSF format). It doesn't require unnecessary printing
- and hand editing of PostScript source to calculate BoundingBox information
- (as is needed with bb.ps).
-
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-
- stripframes.c - convert old layout to new
-
- creator: Michael Hardy (mhardy@acorn.co.uk)
- hardware: Unix platforms
- availability: at request
- description:
- A C program that takes a MIF file, and moves headings from anchored
- frames beside paragraphs to being in-line before a paragraph. It's
- only likely to be of use to someone who wishes to do a very similar job,
- and who understands C.
- This was used to help automate the conversion of a large number of
- manuals from an old layout to a new one. There is also an associated
- script that produces the MIF files, and converts them back to binary
- files afterwards.
-
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-
- trc2mif - convert MOSSIM trace files ".trc" to MIF
-
- creator: Glenn Lewis (glewis@pcocd2.intel.com).
- hardware: Sun4, Sun386i
- availability: FTP
-
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-
- PBM/PGM/PPM - convert various graphics formats
-
- creator: Jef Poskanzer (jef@well.sf.ca.us)
- hardware: Unix platforms
- availability: FTP -> uunet.uu.net
- description:
-
- PBM handles the following formats:
-
- Sun icon file reading writing
- Sun raster file reading writing
- X10 and X11 bitmap file reading writing
- MacPaint reading writing
- CMU window manager format reading writing
- MGR format reading writing
- Group 3 FAX reading writing
- X11 window dump file reading writing
- X10 window dump file reading
- Xerox doodle brushes reading
- GEM .img format reading
- PC paintbrush (.pcx) format reading
- PICT reading
- ASCII graphics writing
- HP LaserJet format writing
- GraphOn graphics writing
- BBN BitGraph graphics writing
- Printronix format writing
-
- PGM handles the following formats:
-
- TIFF reading
- Usenix FaceSaver file reading
- HIPS reading
- FITS reading writing
- PostScript "image" data reading
- raw grayscale bytes reading
- Encapsulated PostScript writing
-
- PPM handles the following formats:
-
- color Sun raster file reading writing
- GIF reading writing
- Amiga IFF ILBM reading writing
- color X11 window dump file reading writing
- color X10 window dump file reading
- MTV ray-tracer output reading
- QRT ray-tracer output reading
- TrueVision Targa file reading
- Img-whatnot file reading
- color Encapsulated PostScript writing
-
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-
- prog2mif - load C-programs into Framemaker
-
- creator: Hermann Kneissel (hermann@danetis.uucp)
- hardware: Unix platforms
- availability: FTP
- description:
- The main function of this filter is to read a c-program file without
- changing the format (Space->Hardspace, Newline->HardReturn, the whole
- File one Paragraph).
-
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-
- XpsToEPS - convert xwd/xpr Postscript to EPS
-
- creator: Michael Hardy (mhardy@acorn.co.uk)
- hardware: Unix platforms
- availability: FTP
- description:
- Converts PostScript output by xwd and xpr to Encapsulated PostScript with
- a screen image. This is useful for importing X screen dumps on non-X
- platforms. (Note that versions of FrameMaker written to run under X can
- already directly import xwd/xpr PostScript.)
-
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-
- word2mif - convert MS-Word 4.0 files to MIF
-
- creator: Olivier Schopfer (schopfer@divsun.unige.ch)
- hardware: Unix platforms
- availability: FTP
- description:
- Filter to convert word processor files from Microsoft Word 4.0
- to Framemaker "MIF" (Maker Interchange Format). The filter supports
- Word's style sheets.
-
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- SHAREWARE PRODUCTS
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-
- la2mml - convert LaTeX to MML
-
- creator: Nigel Horspool (nigelh@csr.uvic.ca)
- hardware: Sun-3, Sun-4, Macintosh
- availability: FTP
- description:
- The conversion program attempts to translate every standard LaTeX contruct
- that can be reasonably described by a MML file. Some constructuions are
- simply impossible to translate. Other constructs are only represented
- approximately. The MML file is known to be compatible with FrameMaker 2.1.
-
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-
- COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS
- -------------------
- Note: It is strongly recommended that you should order a demo version
- or a version with a temporary version first. You can then find
- out whether your documents convert properly.
- (This is almost a shareware approach, except from the higher
- purchase price)
-
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-
- FilterPak 2.1 - import various formats
-
- creator: Frame Technology (comments@frame.com)
- hardware: Sun, HP, IBM, Mac, Apollo, 80386/486 PC's running SCO UNIX
- description:
- Import formats:
- IAF, WP 5.0, troff, CGM, HPGL, DXF, IGES, C960, CCITTG4, EPSI, DCA
-
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-
- Filtrix - convert various formats
-
- creator: Blueberry Software (FAX 707/829-5380)
- hardware: Sun, MS-DOS (HP/Apollo, DEC 3100, IBM RS6000 : Sept '91)
- description:
- Import formats:
- DCA/RFT
- DisplayWrite 2, 3, 4 and 5
- Executive Writer
- FrameMaker 1.3 and 2.x
- Interleaf 3.5 and 3.6 (PS), 4 ps and cx or dp printers
- IslandWrite
- Leading Edge
- Microsoft Word
- Multimate
- OfficeWriter
- PC-Write
- PFS:Write
- PFS:Professional
- Q&A Write
- Samna
- Spellbinder
- SunWrite
- Volkswriter
- WordPerfect 4.2/5.x
- WordStar en WS 2000
- XyWrite
-
- Export formats:
- DCA/RFT
- FrameMaker 1.3 and 2.x
- Interleaf 3.5 and 3.6 (PS), 4 ps and cx or dp printers
- IslandWrite
- Microsoft Word
- SunWrite
- WordPerfect 4.2/5.x
- XyWrite
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-
- Aladdin Software, Norway
-
- Provides various filters.
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-
- triSoft, Belgium
-
- Provides a 2-way WP5.x/Frame filter.
-
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-
- Many thanks to:
-
- Dan Corrin,
- Doug Crabill,
- Ron Crocker,
- Nils Davis,
- Bertrand Decouty,
- Michael Hardy,
- Steve Holden,
- Annette Holloway,
- Sverre Holm,
- Nigel Horspool,
- Bo Kahler,
- Hermann Kneissel,
- Glenn Lewis,
- Paul Moriarty,
- Oscar Nierstrasz,
- Olivier Schopfer,
- Steve Strange,
- Russell Sutherland,
- Ludo Timans,
- Harvard Townsend,
- David Wheeler
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