Donna,
What do you mean by "massive amount"? Are the files huge or do you have a
1,000 files?
Some people use the Word to HTML to DocBook trail, some a more direct
conversion, like Majix. Either way, how much cleanup you do after the conversion
is important.
I use Majix and I have tweeked it so that it produces fairly clean DocBook
(i.e usually no editing afterwards). I could make an install package
available to you if you like. I am a maintainer of the Majix package and I have
not released new packages lately and there has been many Docbook related changes
in the past year. I got on the maintainer list because it appeared to be an
inactive project and I had many Docbook related changes that needed to get into
the source tree.
I would suggest you try several packages out there to see what they produce
for a single file. This may be more important than the actual package, because
if you have a "massive amount" that could equate to a lot of "fix up" if they
are not perfect and I assume you want to limit your post conversion handling to
zero ;-)
One other caution, Word formats range 20+ years and not
all Word versions produce the same RTF format. I have had problems
converting Word97 files and then I saved them as Word2003 and they were fine -
and visa versa. Weird. I would be interested to see what FrameMaker RTF looks
like and how it goes through Majix.
Regards,
Dean Nelson
In a message dated 12/2/2011 8:53:26 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
writes:
I've had good results using dbdoclet. I
first let Word convert the content to HTML using Save As -> Webpage
(filtered), and then apply dbdoclet to the HTML to generate docbook XML.
That approach lets Word handle all of Word's many coding options and quirks,
filtering them down to something more standardized to convert.
dbdoclet is a Java toolkit, one part of which is for converting HTML to
DocBook.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From:
Donna Saporito
To:
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 7:07
AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Easiest way to
convert Word .doc or .rtf to DocBook?
Hi,
I have to convert a massive amount of Word documents
over to DocBook for my company. I also have a few FrameMaker documents that
will need to be converted. I figure that I can save the .fm files as .rtf
and then .doc files and follow the conversion process I will use for Word
(once I figure out what to use).
I am willing to purchase a tool such as WordPlay by
Docsoft, Inc. or Upcast by InfinityLoop. I looked into MajiX, but I thought
the installation instructions were rather confusing. (They may not be
confusing to others, but the user doc said I’d have to run some command from
Sun’s virtual machine, etc. ) I also looked into Yawc briefly, but it calls
for attaching a new template in Microsoft Word. I am nervous to do this in
case I corrupt any existing Word templates that I have.
If there is a simple, straight-forward way to convert
Word to XML? I am willing to ask my company to purchase the best
tool.
Any input will be appreciated. Thanks so much. -
Donna
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