From meissner@lynx.cs.usfca.edu Thu Apr 6 06:29:55 1995 Received: from lynx.cs.usfca.edu by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA11947 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Thu, 6 Apr 1995 22:31:07 +0200 Received: by lynx.cs.usfca.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA82530; Thu, 6 Apr 1995 13:29:55 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 13:29:55 -0700 From: meissner@lynx.cs.usfca.edu (Loren P. Meissner) Message-Id: <9504062029.AA82530@lynx.cs.usfca.edu> To: Keith.Bierman@eng.sun.com, sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.791) 007 in word format X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 I have been moving docs between Page Maker 5 and Word 6 (on both MAC and PC) quite a lot in the last few months; I assume some of this experience is applicable to Frame <=> any_word_processor. Blocks of text arbitrarily switching to symbol font seems to be a common problem; I have not figured out any solution. Often you can redo the same conversion and get rid of it (or get a different block): seems it switches to symbol font and forgets to switch back under some unpredictable circumstances. Another technique that sometimes works well is to CUT AND PASTE the text: i.e., simply copy it from one version to CLIPBOARD and then paste from CLIPBOARD to the other version. For the most part, fonts, paragraph styles, etc. come through OK. Many of the modern word processors understand each others' formats nowadays; some seem to be able to read MS Word 2 (PC) or 5 (MAC) but not Word 6. A feature of Word 6 that is not supported by some (but I think there is something similar in Frame) is "character styles" which can be applied within paragraphs; these do not always convert gracefully. -Loren Meissner