Re: [docbook-apps] pagemaker to XML?

On 19 February 2013 20:34, Peter Ring <> wrote:
> You won't have much luck getting PageMaker up and and running; it is really
> so much last millenium. So what are the options?
>
> InDesign imports PageMaker files. From InDesign, you can export InDesign
> Tagged Text, which is semi-XML, and fairly easy to clean and uptranslate.
>
> Fetch a trial install of InDesign in case you don't fancy investing in this
> kind of workflow. But spend some time with InDesign anyway, it has become
> quite XML-savy (now, I am a dedicated FrameMaker guy, but InDesign has
> become interesting).
>
> Kind regards
> Peter Ring

Thanks Peter. It is legacy content so I wasn't very hopeful. I'll try
the inDesign route.
Currently going word - rtf- wordml - xhtml... which is a bit of a nightmare.

regards


>
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Dave Pawson <> wrote:
>>
>> Am I mistaken in thinking people have solved this up transform please?
>> input pagemaker, output some form of usable XML?
>>
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
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