This ReadMe contains basic information on the following import filters:
Ñ Microsoft Word 6.0
Ñ WordPerfect 6.0/6.1
Ñ WordPerfect 3.0/3.1
Ñ RTF
Ñ MacWrite II
Ñ ClarisWorks 1.0/3.0
Ñ Microsoft Excel 4.0/5.0
Ñ Cross-Platform Issues
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Microsoft Word 6.0
USING THE FILTER
The filter lets you select various options for importing Word 6.0 files. To select the options, choose the File > Place command, then hold down the Shift key and double-click on a Word 6.0 file. The "Microsoft Word 6.0 import filter" dialog box appears. Select the options you want, and then click "OK."
All options selected in the dialog box remain in effect until you change them or quit PageMaker.
IMPORTING TABLE OF CONTENTS ENTRIES FROM OUTLINE
When "Import TOC entries from outline" is checked, PageMaker constructs a table of contents based on the outline in the imported Word 6.0 file. This option is selected by default.
IMPORTING INDEX ENTRY FIELDS
When "Import index entry fields" is selected, PageMaker constructs an index from index entries in the imported Word 6.0 file. This option is selected by default.
IMPORTING CONDENSED OR EXPANDED SPACING
Ñ When "Set Width" is selected, PageMaker applies the Set Width attribute to any appropriate text in the imported Word 6.0 file that has the character-spacing attribute set to a non-default value. For more information about the Set Width attribute, see the Adobe PageMaker 6.0 User Manual.
Ñ When "Kerning" is selected, PageMaker applies the Kerning attribute to any appropriate text in the imported Word 6.0 file that has the character-spacing attribute set to a non-default value. This option is selected by default. For more information about kerning, see the Adobe PageMaker 6.0 User Manual.
Ñ When "Tracking" is selected, PageMaker applies the Tracking attribute to any appropriate text in the imported Word 6.0 file that has the character-spacing attribute set to a non-default value. For more information about tracking, see the Adobe PageMaker 6.0 User Manual.
IMPORTING A BREAK BEFORE PARAGRAPH
Ñ When "Import page break before paragraph" and "As page break before" are selected, PageMaker inserts a page break before paragraphs that have the "Page break before" attribute set in the Word 6.0 file. This option is selected by default.
Ñ When "Import page break before paragraph" and "As column break before" are selected, PageMaker inserts a column break before paragraphs that have the "Page break before" attribute set in the Word 6.0 file.
FEATURES IMPORTED FROM WORD 6.0
FONTS
Size
Leading
Width
Color
Position
Case
TYPE STYLE
Bold
Italic
Underline
Word underline
Special underline (imported as Underline)
Reverse
Strikethrough
TYPE OPTIONS
Character spacing
Super/subscript size
Superscript position
Subscript position
PARAGRAPH SPECIFICATIONS
Left indents
First indents
Right indents
Hanging indents (imported as Left + First)
Nested (imported as single indent of appropriate size)
Paragraph space before and after
ALIGNMENT
Left
Right
Center
Justify
OPTIONS
Keep lines together
Column break before
Page break before
Include in table of contents
Keep with next
LINE RULES
Spacing
Color
Width
Indent
Style
PARAGRAPH STYLE
Name
Based on
Next
Custom
Tab specifications
TAB ATTRIBUTES
Left
Right
Center
Decimal
Period leader
Hyphen leader
Underscore leader
Tab stops
OTHER TEXT SPECIFICATIONS
Extended ANSI characters
Extended ASCII characters
Hyphens
Manual kerning
Column breaks
Page breaks
Index
TOC entries (Imported as Include in)
Footnotes (imported as endnotes)
Outlines (imported as regular text)
Tables (imported as tab-delimited text)
Date and time
Bullets and numbers (inserted manually, not with the Word 6.0 "Bullets and Numbering..." command)
Revision marks without color
FEATURES NOT IMPORTED FROM WORD 6.0
Ñ Shading, foreground colors, and background colors
Ñ Left and right borders
Ñ Hyphenation attributes at the paragraph level
Ñ Word spacing and letter spacing attributes at the paragraph
level
Ñ Color in revision bars
Ñ Drop caps
Ñ Graphics created with the Word 6.0 drawing commands
Ñ Table borders
Ñ Repeated row headings on multiple pages
Ñ Objects from Equation Editor 1.0 or 2.0
Ñ OLE 2 objects
Ñ Macros
Ñ Widow/orphan protection
Ñ Hidden text
Ñ Kerning for fonts
Ñ File templates
Ñ Bullets and numbering specified by Word 6.0's ╥Bullets and
Numbering...╙ command or ╥Bullets╙ and ╥Numbering╙ buttons
Ñ Styles containing Word 6.0's ╥Bullets and Numbering...╙ command
or ╥Bullets╙ and ╥Numbering╙ buttons
Ñ Endnotes
Ñ Annotations
Ñ Bookmarks
Ñ Form fields
Ñ Headers and footers
Ñ Subdocuments of a master document
Ñ Voice annotations
NOTES
In addition to features not imported, please note the following differences in formatting and styles after importing a Word 6.0 file:
Ñ Because Word and PageMaker assign line weights to double border lines differently, thick border lines in Word documents appear as thin border lines with wider spacing in PageMaker.
Ñ Character styles are not imported as styles, but any attributes in a character style in Word 6.0 text are applied to the imported text in PageMaker.
Ñ Paragraph attributes are applied to all imported table cells for a particular table. Because PageMaker does not treat individual table cells as paragraphs, paragraph attributes are not applied to individual imported cells.
Ñ Table of Contents entries generated by the ╥Insert Field...╙ command are not imported. However, Table of Contents entries generated by applying one of the Table of Contents styles are imported.
Ñ Footnotes beginning with numbers other than 1 default to the number 1 when imported into PageMaker.
Ñ Cross references containing page numbers are imported, but the page numbers in the cross references will be incorrect if repagination in PageMaker causes the cross-referenced text to appear on a different page in the PageMaker publication from that of the Word 6.0 publication.
Ñ Text inside frames is imported as paragraphs with borders above and below, but the frame positions are not preserved.
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WordPerfect 6.0/6.1
This filter lets you import files from WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS and WordPerfect 6.0 and 6.1 for Windows into a PageMaker 6.0 (Macintosh) publication.
PageMaker lists WordPerfect 6.0 and 6.1 files with the .WP6, .WPD or .WP extensions. A valid file without one of these extensions will not be imported.
IMPORTED FEATURES
Ñ Automatic kerning (on or off)
Ñ Bookmarks (imported as text)
Ñ Bullets
Ñ Bullet feature
Ñ Cases
Ñ Colored text
Ñ Borders (as top and bottom rules)
Ñ Extended columns (imported as sequential paragraphs)
Ñ Font size (up to 650pts)
Ñ Font formats (see "Notes on Fonts and Styles")
Ñ Footnotes and End Notes (see "Notes on Formatting")
Ñ Hanging indents (if created with WordPerfect's hanging indent
option)
Ñ Hypertext links (imported as colored text)
Ñ Hyphenation (on or off)
Ñ Hyphenation zone (only left zone is imported)
Ñ Indents
Ñ Index codes (see "Notes on Tables, Indexes, and Languages")
Ñ Insert date (imported as text)
Ñ Insert filename (imported as text)
Ñ Insert path and filename (imported as text)
Ñ Insert counter (imported as text)
Ñ Justification
Ñ Language formatting (with the exception of English-Australia)
Ñ Letter spacing (see "Notes on Formatting")
Ñ Lists (imported as text)
Ñ Margins
Ñ Outlines
Ñ Paragraph styles
Ñ Paragraph spacing
Ñ Parallel columns (imported as sequential paragraphs)
Ñ QuickFormat (imported as text)
Ñ Styles (see "Notes on Fonts and Styles")
Ñ Tables (see "Notes Tables, Indexes, and Languages")
Ñ Tabs (see "Notes on Tabs")
Ñ Table of Authorities (imported as text)
Ñ Table of Contents codes (see "Notes on Formatting")
Ñ Text box (text only)
Ñ Underline (special underlining is not imported)
Ñ Strikethru
Ñ Subscript
Ñ Superscript
Ñ Word spacing
FEATURES NOT IMPORTED
Ñ Automatic page numbering
Ñ Barcodes
Ñ Bookmarks
Ñ Diamond, square, and triangle WordPerfect bullets
Ñ Charts
Ñ Comments
Ñ Cross-reference codes. Index codes are imported.
Ñ Dot leaders for indexes, lists, tables of authorities, and table of
contents
Ñ Draw objects
Ñ Drop caps
Ñ Equations
Ñ Figures
Ñ Graphics
Ñ Headers and Footers
Ñ Inline graphics
Ñ Kerning
Ñ List entries
Ñ Named character styles
Ñ Overstrike text
Ñ Page and column breaks
Ñ Right hyphenation zones
Ñ Shading
Ñ Sound
Ñ Table of authorities entries (imported as text)
Ñ Text Art
Ñ Text created with WordPerfect Fonts/Character sets (Arabic,
Ñ Hard tabs set in WordPerfect are replaced by default tab settings for the line in which they occur.
Ñ The filter imports only a single leader tab character per paragraph. If multiple leader tabs are used in the same paragraph, the leader character of the last leader tab in the paragraph replaces all other leader tab characters in the paragraph.
Ñ The filter will not properly import tab values greater than 22.75", nor will indent values greater than 22.75" have the intended value. Any tab settings beyond the 40th tab on the ruler will be ignored.
NOTES ON FONTS AND STYLES
Ñ Font names in WordPerfect, which include the font family name plus type styles such as italic and bold, are imported as regular fonts in PageMaker, and the type style is then applied to the regular font. Because PageMaker does not recognize "Regular" as a type style, when the WordPerfect font type style is "Regular," the PageMaker PANOSE font substitution dialog box appears and requests a font substitution. You can eliminate the need for this substitution using PageMaker's File > Preferences command, as follows:
1. In the "Preferences' dialog box, choose "Map fonts...."
2. In the "Font Matching" dialog box, choose "Exceptions...."
3. In the "PANOSE Font Matching Exceptions" dialog box, choose "Add..."
4. In the "Add Matching Exceptions" dialog box, type the "Missing font" name as Fontname Regular (for example, Arial Regular) then select or type the "Substituted font" without the word "Regular" (for example, Arial).
Ñ Nesting of character styles within paragraph styles can cause some paragraph style codes to be ignored if the nested character styles contain text, tabs, or indents.
Ñ Only the paired styles at the beginnings of paragraphs are imported and added to the PageMaker style palette. The properties given to characters by open styles or paired styles inside paragraphs are imported, but the styles themselves are not.
Ñ Formatting created by character styles within paragraphs is imported, but character styles themselves are not imported.
NOTES ON FORMATTING
Ñ Borders are only minimally supported by the filter. If a paragraph is boxed or has any portion of a box applied, PageMaker applies a top and bottom rule. Rules are always hairline, 100% black, with the same line length as the text, with no indents.
Ñ A story's right edge is based on the right margin of the first paragraph of the imported document. A story's left edge adheres to the 1" left margin, the standard WordPerfect default setting.
Ñ Hanging indents are imported if they are created with WordPerfect's hanging indent option.
Ñ Some WordPerfect graphics characters that are similar to, but not identical with, ANSI characters are replaced with those ANSI characters when imported into PageMaker. WordPerfect characters that are not similar to any ANSI characters are imported as spaces.
Ñ Double underlines are imported as single underlines. Outlined, shadowed, and red text is imported as normal text.
Ñ Both footnotes and end notes are imported at the end of imported text. Footnotes and end notes are not differentiated. They both appear in the same list, in the order the reference codes appear in the text. Both import with number reference labels, even if letter references were specified in WordPerfect.
Ñ Table of Contents codes import only if they appear at the start of a paragraph. WordPerfect supports five Table of Contents levels. PageMaker supports only one level and imports all five WordPerfect levels as PageMaker level one.
Ñ Parallel columns are imported as linear text, in separate paragraphs.
Ñ Letter spacing in WordPerfect set to any percentage other than 100% may not import at the correct percentage.
COLORS
Ñ Color names are not saved within the WordPerfect 6 file, and therefore cannot be imported. Unique substitute names will be provided by the filter, and will take the form:
R<red value> G<green value> B<blue value>
An example would be: "R241 G45 B10", which is RGB color 241,45,10. You can change an RGB name to a descriptive name (such as "olive green") by using the Element > Define Colors command.
TABLES, INDEXES, AND LANGUAGE
Ñ Tables with cells that are joined or split will be imported with cells not properly aligned. Cell-level alignment and other cell-level formatting will not be imported.
Ñ Text that wraps in a WordPerfect table cell does not wrap when imported into PageMaker, where it appears on one line in the imported table cell.
Ñ Text marked manually for indexing in WordPerfect imports to PageMaker with index markers. However, text indexed with a concordance file is not imported into PageMaker with index markers.
Ñ Only one language per paragraph is imported.
Ñ English-Australia imports as Australian English instead of UK English.
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WORDPERFECT 3.0/3.1
This filter lets you import files from WordPerfect 3.0 and 3.1 for Macintosh into a PageMaker 6.0 (Macintosh) publication.
IMPORTANT NOTES ON KNOWN PROBLEMS
The following sections describe some known problems with the WordPerfect 3.0/3.1 filter:
Ñ Paragraph rules below
For a paragraph rule applied below the paragraph in WordPerfect, an extra line is inserted below the paragraph after importing the WordPerfect file to PageMaker.
Graphics
Ñ All graphics contained in WordPerfect file import to PageMaker as inline PICTs. After importing the WordPerfect file, you can change the inline PICTs to standalone PICTs.
Ñ Imported WordPerfect files that contain graphics do not print to Tektronix color printers.
To work around this problem, you can replace the graphics after importing the file:
1. After importing the WordPerfect 3 file, delete the inline
graphics.
2. Replace each graphic in its original format (PICT, EPS, TIFF,
etc.) as an inline graphic, using PageMaker's ╥Place...╙ command.
3. Now print the publication to the Tektronix color laser printer.
Ñ WordPerfect Equations are imported, but the WordPerfect equation fonts must be installed on the system for the equations to display and print correctly.
Ñ WordPerfect Graphic Editor objects display in color on the screen, but print in grayscale.
Ñ PICTs display in color on the screen, but print in grayscale.
Ñ Color EPS graphics print in color, but only at low resolution. The bitmap screen representation is printed rather than the full PostScript graphic.
Font Substitution
Files with missing fonts are imported into PageMaker with WordPerfect's default font applied to the missing fonts. PANOSE font substitution does not appear.
PageMaker Scripting Language
Using PageMaker's scripting language to import WordPerfect 3 files results in a loss of formatting attributes. Always import WordPerfect 3 files manually.
Nested Indents
Because there is no direct equivalent of nested indents in PageMaker, the filter attempts to approximate WordPerfect formatting. A paragraph containing nested indents may be broken into smaller paragraphs, and unwanted tabs may also be inserted. After importing, either manually format paragraphs containing nested indents, or do not use nested indents for text that will be imported into PageMaker.
Parallel and Extended Columns
Because there is no direct equivalent of either parallel or extended columns in PageMaker, the filter imports each paragraph sequentially, from left to right.
IMPORTED FEATURES
The following features are imported:
Type Styles
Plain text
Bold
Italics
Outline
Shadow
Strikeout (imported strikeout bar is not red, as it is WordPerfect 3.0)
Redline (imported as bold + underine)
Single underline
Double underline
Small caps
Superscript
Subscript
Text color
Leading
Fixed leading
Top of Caps leading
Type Options
Default superscript
Default subscript
Custom superscript - % of font size
Custom superscript - move up % of line height
Custom subscript - % of font size
Custom subscript - move down % of line height
Tabs
Default
Bar
Left
Right
Center
Decimal
Leaders
Light dot
Heavy dot
Dash
Underscore
Paragraph Alignment
Left
Right
Centered
Justified
Force justified
Paragraph Indentation
Insert indent feature
Left
Right
First line
Hanging indent
Nested indent
Space between paragraphs
Automatic Line Spacing
Single spacing
1.5 line spacing
Double spacing
Rules and Borders
Paragraph and character rules above and below
Paragraph and character rule thickness
Hyphenation
Discretionary hyphen
Hyphenation on/off
Left Hyphenation zone value (other zones not imported)
Formatting
Page breaks
Column breaks
Keep lines together
Tables
Outlines
Outline numbering
Text marked for Table of Contents
Index markers
Subindexing
Stamps and Numbering
Insert page number
Insert text date
Insert auto date
Languages
Danish - Denmark imported as Dansk
Dutch - Netherlands imported Nederlands
English - Australia imported as UK English
English - Canada imported as UK English
English - Great Britain imported as UK English
English - U.S.A. imported as US English
Finnish - Finland imported as Suomi
French - Belgium imported as Francais
French - Canada imported as francais canadien
French - France imported as Francais
French - Switzerland imported as Francais
German - Austria imported as Deutsch
German - Germany imported as Deutsch
German - Switzerland imported as Deutsch CH
Italian - Italy imported as Italiano
Norwegian - Norway imported as Norsk
Portuguese - Brazil imported as Portugues brasileiro
Portuguese - Portugal imported as Portugues
Spanish - Spain imported as Espanol
Swedish - Sweden imported as Svenska
Other
Kerned text
Footnotes (imported as endnotes)
Footnotes with automatic numbering
Widow/Orphan On/off preference
Templates
Named styles
Subtitled text
WP 3.0 Compressed files
FEATURES NOT IMPORTED
The following features are not imported:
Ñ Style - Based on
Ñ Next style
Ñ Keep with next xxx lines
Ñ Text boxes and frames
Ñ Headers and footers
Ñ Columns
Ñ Watermarks
Ñ Overlays
Ñ Line numbering
Ñ Custom decimal/align character tab
Ñ Paragraph and character rules left/right
Ñ Between paragraph rules
Ñ Double line series
Ñ Box styles
Ñ Rules with applied patterns
Ñ Password protected files
LANGUAGES NOT IMPORTED (IMPORTED AS NONE)
Catalan - Spain
Afrikaans - South Africa
Chinese - China
Chinese - Taiwan
Croatian - Yugoslavia
Czech - Czechoslovakia
Greek - Greece
Hebrew - Israel
Hungarian - Hungary
Japanese - Japan
Korean - Korea
Polish - Poland
Russian - USSR
Turkish - Turkey
Ukrainian - USSR
Arabic - Saudi Arabia
Flemish - Belgium
Icelandic - Iceland
Thai - Thailand
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RTF (rich text format) files
The following features from word processors are supported in PageMaker:
Font (up to 28 per file)
Size (from 4 to 650 pts)
Leading (converts line space setting in word processor)
Color
Superscript
Subscript
Small caps
All caps
Track (converts expanded or condensed type to equivalent track settings)
Bold
Italic
Underline
Word underline (as Underline each)
Special underline (as Underline)
Reverse (white text imports as reverse
Strikethrough
Outline
Shadow
Hidden (for index entry only)
Super/subscript size
Superscript position
Subscript position
Left indent
First indent
Right indent
Paragraph space before and after
Left paragraph alignment
Right paragraph alignment
Center paragraph alignment
Justify paragraph alignment
Dictionary
Keep lines together
Page break before
Include in table of contents (table of contents entries imported)
Keep with next
Widow control (as document-level attribute)
Orphan control (as document-level attribute)
Rules above and below
Rule style (converts to closed equivalent line pattern in PageMaker)
Rule color
Rule distance from baseline
Left tab alignment
Right tab alignment
Center tab alignment
Decimal tab alignment
tab leader
Period tab leader
Hyphen tab leader
Underscore tab leader
Extended ANSI
Extended ASCII
Discretionary hyphens
Indexing entries (up to three levels)
Cross-references
TOC entries (as Include in TOC)
Footnotes (as endnotes)
Graphics
Tables (as tab-delimited)
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MacWrite II
The following attributes in MacWrite II are supported by PageMaker:
Font
Size (from 4 to127 points in 0.5 increments)
Color
Superscript
Subscript
Small caps
All caps
Bold
Italic
Underline
Strikethrough
Outline
Shadow
Indents (first line, left, and right only)
Paragraph space before and after
Left alignment
Right alignment
Center alignment
Justify alignment
Left tab alignment
Right tab alignment
Center tab alignment
Decimal tab alignment
Special alignments are imported but set as Left aligned
Period tab leader
Hyphen tab leader
Underscore tab leader
Extended ASCII
Discretionary hyphens
Footnotes (as endnotes)
Graphics
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ClarisWorks 1.0/3.0
The filter allows PageMaker to handle ClarisWorks files with minimal rework after placing the file, but note the following information:
Ñ The filter does not support the ClarisWorks View Scale, Multiple view, and Orientation features.
Ñ Graphics in a ClarisWorks file are imported as inline PICTS.
Ñ Since ClarisWorks applies extra leading to outline, shadow, superscript, and subscript formats, the filter applies manual leading to the imported paragraphs, and resets the autoleading percentage to 100% for those paragraphs. If you want to override the manual leading by applying autoleading to the imported paragraphs, you must first use the Type > Paragraph command in PageMaker to set the autoleading default to the percentage you want.
Ñ ClarisWorks identifies a font by its Macintosh font number, not by the name of the font. As a result, when you place a ClarisWorks file into PageMaker, the PANOSE dialog box displays font numbers (rather than font names) for those fonts that are in the file but are not currently available on the system.
Ñ Text imported into ClarisWorks from SimpleText is displayed in ClarisWorks as 12-point type but is stored with a point size of 0. PageMaker recognizes only the stored point size, and imports text with a point size of 4 or less as 4-point text. To import such text into PageMaker, either assign the desired point size in ClarisWorks, or change the point size after importing into PageMaker.
Ñ ╥Condense╙ and ╥Extend╙ attributes assigned in ClarisWorks are ignored when imported into PageMaker.
Ñ If text is exported from ClarisWorks via automatic scripting, tab and leader formatting does not import to PageMaker.
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Microsoft Excel 4.0/5.0
The Excel spreadsheet import filter imports Excel version 4.0 and 5.0 files, but note the following information:
Ñ Text blocks in PageMaker can be no wider than 21 inches, so keep this in mind when importing wide spreadsheet data.
Ñ The Excel filter crashes if the file being placed is already open in Excel on another computer, and it is the first time the filter is launched during the PageMaker session.
Ñ Outline and shadow type styles do not import.
Ñ Vertical alignment does not import.
Ñ Empty cells import to PageMaker with different type size and font formatting (instead of Excel's default type size/leading/font) if preceded by cells with different type attributes.
Ñ The filter attempts to substitute "Helv" for Helvetica, "System" for Chicago, and "Tms" Rmn for Times.
Ñ Importing Excel 4.0 files with "Apply default spreadsheet style" selected will apply PageMaker's default font and font size, rather than the font and font size applied in the Excel 4.0 file.
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Cross-Platform Issues
When moving graphics cross-platform, the best format is usually EPS, TIFF, or WMF/PICT, in that order.
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