About TechWhirl TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information. For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications. Connect with us on Latest Articles from Tech Writer Today Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner. [][][][] [ (this month)][ (this month)][] Summary: converting Ventura to Word (long) Subject: Summary: converting Ventura to Word (long) From: Tracy Boyington Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 09:58:29 -0600 Thanks to all who suggested solutions. I also received several very kind offers of help, which made my little heart go pitter patter -- what a great group!!!:-) The suggestions generally fell into two areas: stripping out the Ventura codes by hand/macro or using conversion software and/or filters. I'll post to the list if either of these options turns out to be wildly successful.

In the meanwhile, since there was some interest, here's a digested version of the responses (with some snippage to try and reduce the length of this post). Tracy ------ >If the Ventura files are pretty old, they should be formatted in a >sort of markup language, so you can probably just write a little >search and replace script to convert them to WordPerfect fairly >painlessly. (WP also uses a markup language.) That is, if nobody >knows of a better solution. ------ >The only thing I know you can do is open the doc files (on which each >chapter is based) in Word, and clean out all the Ventura codes. Some >say you can write macros that will more quickly delete all the codes.

>I don't know how to do that. ------ >It's been a long time since I used Ventura, but I remember messing >Serial Contpaq I Factura Electronica. around with this problem at one point.

>>Ventura files are largely tagged ASCII text. It should not be too hard to >write a series of WordBasic or VBA macros that would convert the tags to >Word >formatting or Word styles.

You can probably convert about 80% of the >formattting fairly easily like that, the rest may require stripping the tags >and manually reformatting in Word. >>I do remember playing around with a shareware product that someone had >written that would do Ventura >Word conversion (or maybe it was Word >>Ventura). Perhaps a search of DTP sites or software archives will turn >something up. >>You could also check out commercial conversion products such as Word for >Word. >I posted a similar question to the Ventura list a few months ago, and >someone told me about a conversion tool by Performance Software that >converts Ventura to either Word or FrameMaker. He thought they had a >demo available, too.

He listed as their >address. I didn't research this option myself, so I can't give any >recommendations. >>If this doesn't pan out, the yecchy alternative is to salvage the old >text files from the old Ventura publications. You should be able to open >them using Word's import filters. However, the text files don't include >any graphics, or anything that has been placed in a frame (such as >charts, callouts, or whatever). Plus, you'd have to strip out all >formatting codes. ------ >WAIT -- FrameMaker (V5.5) has a Ventura>in filter.

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>It does NOT work with Ventura 7, but it MAY work >with Ventura 4/5 (was there a 6?) (snip) >>in the old days, when you HAD Ventura, there was >a Word out-filter; in Ventura 7 (maybe before) it >'disappeared.' >also in the old days -- and you might want to look >for this -- there was a VP >FrameMaker conversion >from Rosetta Stone. Sales Motivational Videos In Hindi Free Download here. >also in the old days, there was a software house >called MasterSoft (acquired by Frame and probably >dumped by Adobe) that made VERY good filters that >I THINK included VP>? (Blueberry also has good >filters, but I get the impression you DON'T want >to spend any $$).