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Mif2Go: FrameMaker MIF to HTML, XML, Help, and
Word
What Our Users Say About Mif2Go
Our users are a vocal lot; they don't hesitate to say
what they think and what they want. We like that; here are some of the
comments they've made in the past.
[Please note that we have specific permissions on file
for use here of all of the unsolicited comments from customers below.
Also note that all opinions expressed are those of their authors, not
of Omni Systems. There are more to come... it’s a really big
folder... ;-)]
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Subject: Re: Using Mif2Go to save as XML
From: "Roger W. Fienhold Sheen" <roger@....de>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:24:06 +0200
I've downloaded the demo version and am very
impressed with the product. I was especially stunned at the speed with
which the XML output was generated. The book had 40+ files & over
4000 pages, yet it finished in ~20 minutes!
Thanks for a great product and any additional
info you can provide,
Roger
Technical Communication & Information Design
Roger W. Fienhold Sheen | Mangerstrasse 21 |
D-14467 Potsdam | Germany
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Subject: FM book to one HTML file?
From: rinch@....com
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:38:14 -0400
I installed Mif2Go on Tuesday morning. Wednesday
morning I had the book converted and ready for review (four chapters,
54 pages - I purposely chose a small project to start with). I showed
everything to my customer this morning and he is very pleased.
I've been in the tech pubs field for thirty years
now, and this is my first request for manuals in HTML format. I am very
pleased with Mif2Go and I found Mif2Go easy to learn and use. Your manual
is excellent. I'm glad I chose Mif2Go.
Thanks for your help,
Richard
Richard Inch
Technical Documentation Manager
Intelligent Sensor Solutions
INFICON
Two Technology Place
East Syracuse, NY 13057-9714
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Subject: Re: license transfer
From: Keith Arnett <karnett49@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:38:17 -0500
My first foray into 3rd party conversion tools
for FrameMaker was with xxxxx, about 6 years ago, I think. Despite
off-site training, I found the product very unfriendly and hard to use,
and never could get the output to format exactly the way I wanted it.
And I'm not a real big fan of regular expressions....
After moving on to ScoreBoard, I was definitely
looking for another solution, and I downloaded the Mif2Go demo. It did
most of what I wanted right out of the box, and with only a farily minor
bit of tweaking, and the development of a dedicated FrameMaker reference
template, I was in business. And since then, the product has only gotten
better.
For much of the last few years, I've been working
as a lone tech writer, and I would have been swamped without Mif2Go.
It lets me spend my time on the documentation, not on production.
Thanks again,
Keith
49 Greenfield Court
Front Royal VA 22630
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Subject: JW:Mif2Go works great
From: Joseph Woodard <jwoodard@....com>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:06:11 +0000 (GMT)
I've finally had time at work to employ Mif2Go.
I created a Frame EDD and associated templates for a generic user guide.
I use Mif2Go to save a guide I've written describing User Guide creation
in omnihelp and RTF format (plus Frame's native use of Distiller to
produce a PDF version). The result is fairly portable (only a few absolute
pathnames in *.prj and *.ini files must be changed). We can incorporate
changes and republish in minutes rather than weeks. The previous process
used Robohelp and Word to produce Winhelp and Word files but required
laborious manual tweaking of results. The new process requires no tweaking
at all now that *.ini and *.css configurations are set. (Of course it
took time to create and perfect the EDD and Frame templates.) But I
can use the result to write and publish all sorts of guides. Very fast.
Great.
Thanks for your hard work in creating and maintaining
Mif2Go. It's a quality piece of work and well honed for typical work.
The default values are sensible and your documentation was a real aid.
Take care,
Joe W
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Subject: New business
From: "Henderson, Greg" <Greg_Henderson@....com>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:16:35 -0500
Hi Jeremy,
Greg Henderson here. I just wanted to drop you
a note and let you know that the company I'm contracted to is going
to use Mif2Go. They sent back their unopened copy of WWP and decided
not to go for RoboHelp for FM.
I don't know how many licenses they will get
since there are only 8 writers here. I suspect at least 2 and as many
as 10. Anyway, I just wanted you to know that Mif2Go is still a super
product in my book and I'll continue to recommend it wherever I go.
The selling factor here was the level of control and the open access
to how M2G accomplishes things. Of course they also liked the idea of
the fantastic support they would get from you. Of course after dealing
with WWP support for a while, anything is probably a step up<ROTFLMAO>!
Best wishes,
Greg
[An order for three licenses came in that day.]
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Subject: RE: [HATT] RANT: X3 - eXperience the
new eXplosive features...
From: "Glenn Maxey" <glenn.maxey@....com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:50:04 -0600
I'm one of those happy HATTers that uses Mif2Go.
As a further plug for their great concern for customers, you should
check out their link for unemployed technical writers (www.omsys.com).
I am also very grateful that this company (and
Jeremy in particular) were very responsive not only to "pilot-malfunctions"
I was introducing, but also to product suggestions. After an e-mail
round of negotiation on the specification (what did I really really
need? Really? Okay, then...), they eventually implemented it and gave
me first crack at using it.
Thanks to their business philosophy, my road
blocks were few and short-lived.
Awesome.
Glenn Maxey
Technical Writer
Voyant Technologies, Inc.
1765 West 121st Avenue
Westminster, CO 80234-2301
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Subject: Re: Mif2Go Shipment 33U25
From: Roland Marandino <Roland@....com>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 09:33:23 -0400
I ordered and installed Mif2Go 33U25 at the end
of May 2002. Do I need to upgrade? Are there new features or bug fixes?
Are upgrades mailed automatically?
BTW--great product; cannot tell you how it simplified
my preparing input files for IBM's BookManager Build.
Thanks.
Roland Marandino
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Subject: praise for Mif2Go
From: Alison Tartt <akt@....net>
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 09:39:09 -0500
Last week all my Frame files were finalized,
and yesterday I performed the conversions to Word. It went like a dream,
and I was amazed at how little cleanup the Word files needed, despite
the complexity of the original Frame files.
Thank you for your excellent product. I will
certainly recommend Mif2Go if I encounter similar situations in working
with other clients.
Best regards,
Alison Tartt
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Subject: Kudos
From: Roland Marandino <Roland@jensenresearch.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 11:14:11 -0400
Just wanted to commend you on a great plug-in
for FrameMaker. It has made preparing the input files for IBM's BookManager
Build a breeze. It's rare, these days, that a product does exactly what
it says and provides only the tools you need.
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Subject: Thanks!
From: "Adrian Morse" <Adrian_Morse@....com>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:25:03 +0200
Today I delivered four HTML Help projects to
my very happy boss for inclusion in our suite of software products.
As you know I created the HTML Help files using FrameMaker and MIF2GO.
I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to you and your company for making
it such a smooth ride with an excellent product and a user support second-to-none.
MIF2GO has coped remarkably well with complex FrameMaker documents and
I will certainly be recommending it to other FM users.
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Subject: Ordering mif2go
From: Ada Lai <adalai2000@....com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:13:02 -0800 (PST)
I am SOOOO impressed with mif2go! I need to convert
FM to HTML for a large command reference manual and I have been going
through the pain of using FM's "native" conversion facility --- painful!
SO, I downloaded the trial version and tested
it on a copy of my FM doc, just defaulting everything. I couldn't believe
the stunning output.
I had spent 10-15 minutes reading through the
installation and "getting started" discussions of your user guide and
skimming through some of the other sections related to FM and HTML,
then quickly installed, did the basic setup and then the "save as.."
I couldn't believe my eyes - the results were stunning, especially
the tables! I have at least 200 tables in this document and you can
imagine how bad the HTML tables looked coming out of FM - your tables
are gorgeous!
Lastly, I think your documentation is excellent
-- so far, it has given me every bit of information that I need to know
without painful searching or piecing things together from multiple scattered
locations.
I am REALLY looking forward to getting my "real"
working copy of mif2go. I am much more comfortable investing $300 in
your product than in spending the $1100 that Quadralay now wants for
WWP -- especically since I know I will be up and running within hours
using mif2go (vs. months with WWP, from what I heard).
Sincerely,
Ada Lai
p.s. I really appreciate your providing a trial
version of your product. It is much more beneficial to someone like
me who wants to know how the process works, not just what the finished
product will be. I also commend you for your brilliantly ingenious method
of ensuring that people will only use this as a trial/demo, especially
since I have always loved "Jabberwocky"! :-)
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Subject: Mif2Go support of Oracle Help
From: "Jennifer Anaya" <janaya@....com>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:01:19 -0700
Just wanted to let you know I just did my first
real test of the new Oracle Help stuff and everything worked like a
charm. The ALink stuff works great and everything is wonderful. Thanks
so much.
Jennifer Anaya
Technical Writer
Dorado Software
"Yesterday, Mr. Hall wrote that the printer's
proofreader was improving my punctuation for me, and I telegraphed orders
to have him shot without giving him time to pray." --Mark Twain in an
1889 letter to a friend.
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Subject: Kudos
From: "Jason Helfenbaum" <jhelfenbaum@....com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 07:01:12 -0400
How's this for a 6:30 AM endorsement?
"With the time I saved thanks to Mif2Go, the
product paid for itself within the first week. If you need to export
projects from FrameMaker, then I highly recommend using Mif2Go."
Jason Helfenbaum,
Technical Writer
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Subject: Wow: Mif2Go to RTF
From: Mark Baker <MBaker@....com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:12:51 -0800
Suddenly we've been hit with a requirement to
create .rtf files from FrameMaker for Frame-less partner companies -
not the original reason we even bought Mif2Go - and our first trial
run through, before any .ini tweaking, has us again blown away, hence
the "Wow." Some issues with scaled graphics blurring, but we'll find
the settings to fix that soon enough.
In a word, just wanted to underscore what an
incredible product you've created! [But you knew that already. ;-)
]
In awe,
Mark Baker
Timeline, Inc.
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Subject: Re: Mif2Go vs. WWP
From: "Steve Kubis" <steve.kubis@....com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:01:11 -0600
Having used MIF2GO for over three years, I'll
throw my opinion into the mix.
We've never used WWP. When we were looking for
a conversion tool to go from Frame to RTF for WinHelp, WebWorks was
just too expensive to even try. We found out about MIF2GO, had a couple
of samples converted by Omni Systems, and decided the results looked
promising. We couldn't be happier with our decision.
MIF2GO does an excellent job producing RTF for
use as a Word document, RTF for WinHelp, HTML, HTML for HTML Help, and
XHTML. If it isn't already there, XML support will almost certainly
be added. MIF2GO is fast. The MIF2GO components are very efficient.
They take up very little disk space and run quickly. This allows the
product to scale extremely well. Here's an example:
We're producing an HTML Help file from about
300 FrameMaker files. The final HTML Help file will have over 5000 topics
(i.e. 5000+ HTML files). MIF2GO can produce all of the HTML in about
twenty minutes, running on a Pentium II 400. Small help files with fewer
than 1000 topics are produced in just a couple of minutes. Tiny help
files with less than 100 topics are produced instantly.
MIF2GO produces great HTML. The folks at Omni
Systems are true believers in standards. All of the HTML produced by
MIF2GO complies with the W3C standards. The support for cascading style
sheets is superb. If you choose, every paragraph can have a "class"
tag applied, allowing a CSS to take perform formatting on the resulting
HTML. It's amazingly flexible. I used to wish that HTML formatting could
be as flexible as WinHelp formatting. With the CSS support in MIF2GO,
it is!
The HTML for HTML Help is excellent. All of the
nasty stuff to allow secondary windows, A-links, the index and TOC are
all taken care of for you. You can make some nice HTML Help files very
quickly. MIF2GO saves tremendous amounts of work in this area.
MIF2GO is flexible. The folks at Omni have added
lots of customization capability to MIF2GO. Hypertext markers, HTML
Macros and JavaScripts allow virtually anything to be added to the HTML
output. You don't need to use any of these customization features. They
aren't required to get good results, but the capabilities can be really
helpful to add cool features to your HTML files.
MIF2GO does have a learning curve. You'll get
HTML or RTF as soon as you run the product. However, you will need to
tweak the configuration file to get exactly the output that you want.
If you send some samples to Omni, they'll send back the configuration
file they used to produce the output. That's a good place to start.
Once you get a project set up, you can just use it. No adjustments are
necessary. If you do have questions, you can always e-mail to them to
Omni. The support is superb.
MIF2GO is cost-effective. It starts out at $295
for a single copy. The cost per seat goes down as you purchase more
seats. Our department was able to buy a couple dozen seats for the price
of just a few WWP seats.
If this sounds like an endorsement of MIF2GO,
I guess it is. We're so happy with our MIF2GO decision that we haven't
bothered to look at anything else. If you're looking for a Frame to
HTML or RTF conversion tool, you should give MIF2GO a look.
Steve
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Subject: Re: mif2go
From: "Gregory D. Henderson" <gdhenderson@....com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 09:00:14 -0500
Mif2go:
- great product
- super support
- fantastic capabilities
- reasonably priced
We've been using it for almost a year now for
HTML conversions. A corporate-wide license was much less than the cost
of 10 WWP packages.
Greg Henderson
Lucent Technologies
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Subject: Re: fm6 and html conversion
From: "Steve Kubis" <steve.kubis@....com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:38:06 -0600
We've used MIF2GO for HTML conversion for over
a year now. It's excellent. The speed of conversion is wonderful and
the flexibility is fantastic. We're so happy with our results, we've
never bothered to look at WWP. The price is very reasonable too.
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Subject: Re[4]: New DMM chapters
From: PAT MCCABE <PMCCABE@....gov>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 10:01:16 -0600
The USPS is using Mif2Go for converting the Domestic
Mail Manual to HTML for Web display. The HTML Domestic Mail Manual is
updated once a month on the USPS Postal Explorer Web site at http://pe.usps.gov.
The source document is in Adobe FrameMaker."
Thanks for all the assistance you have provided
the USPS through Chris Staudt and Charles Richardson of Matrix Press.
Charles has been an invaluable expert consultant to the Postal Service
and has spoken highly of your assistance to him.
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Subject: Re: New User
From: "George Newfield" <gnewfiel@....com>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 15:35:10 -0500
Further to our correspondence on October 4th,
I have asked my company to purchase your product, and only a few minutes
ago, installed Package 31, Revision 24 on my machine, running on Windows
NT (4.0, SP4).
I immediately tested it and am quite impressed!
It is just as you have stated, "...totally automatic. You can change
the associations if you want, but you get reasonable results off the
shelf."
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Subject: Anchored frames and mif2go
From: Sara Schertz <SSchertz@....com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 12:28:53 -0600
Hi - My company recently purchased mif2go, and
I am currently using the program to convert a frame book to html.
Thanks! by the way, this product is terrific.
I am amazed at how much I have been able to do so far using a Frame
template and the mif2go settings, without touching the original content
of the book!!
Sara Schertz
Senior Technical Writer
Interface Software, Inc
sschertz@....com
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Subject: Questions on mif2go
From: Lee Gregory <Lee@....com.au>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:01:09 +1000
I've got my 1300 page book coming out as a nice
Winhelp file in about 10 minutes which is fantastic.
We are just adding in the Akeys which is very
easy since it is just a Character style. That is also working well.
So thanks for a great product.
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Subject: Re: Automatic export to web, paper and
help
From: "Gregory D. Henderson" <gdhenderson@....com>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:09:13 -0400
In the vanilla FM world, the outputs are either
a function of FrameMaker's native outputs (Paper, PDF), or our electronic
documents are produced through Omni Systems MIF2GO product. I can't
recommend this product enough! It is a plugin for FM that has the capability
of producing HTML, DHTML, WinHelp, HTML Help, JavaHelp, XML and who
knows what else.
Using FM and MIF2GO, we can produce every output
that the SGML system can produce.
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Subject: New contact information
From: "Folette, Kevin" <kfolette@....com>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:10:02 -0500
I will be leaving Intergraph next week. ... Thanks
for your support and assistance. Mif2Go is a tool worth recommending.
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Subject: Some results...
From: Steve Kubis <skubis@....com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 10:22:15 -0500
After being bogged down in our release for the
last few months, we're finally finished and can move on to some new
things. All of our documentation has been moved into FrameMaker, with
MIF2GO used to make the WinHelp files we shipped. Boy, did we ship lots
of WinHelp! Here are some stats:
The stuff I did personally: 8 WinHelp files
7408 topics
8606 jumps
13,885 keywords
800 bitmaps
Stuff done by the other writers:
The Accounting system: 3 versions of the help
file, built with conditional text. Each file had over 6000 topics.
The Manufacturing system had over 4000 topics.
The Human Resources system had over 1000 topics.
MIF2GO was a real trooper. It churned through
gobs and gobs of MIF files, without so much as a hiccup. If there were
any problems in the help files, they could always be traced back to
the Frame source. MIF2GO was never a problem. Kudos to you!
Oh, and another great big thank-you for MIF2GO.
We put our faith into Frame, MIF2GO, and this single-source process.
It was well-placed. We got fabulous results we never would have achieved
with our old system.
Steve
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Subject: RE: Ordering Mif2Go
From: "Jerry Donald" <donaldje@....com>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:59:48 -0500
I'd used WWP for about a year, producing HTML
Help. So I'd already been through the stiff learning curve. When I
changed companies and needed to provide WinHelp from FrameMaker source,
I had to go through a couple of tech support emails with Quadralay just
to get something partially working. I produced workable Help using Mif2Go
"out of the box" so to speak.
Because I also have to support the other writers
and a contractor who will be doing some of the conversion work for us,
the decision was easy for me to make. And the more I worked with Mif2Go
the more I liked it. I've already talked up Mif2Go in the place where
I left a few months ago (a telecommunications company) where I got my
replacement to speed on WebWorks. Selling the new employer (another
telecommunications company here in Telecom Corridor) on Mif2Go was easy
(even though we already had one copy of WebWorks bought at my request).
Although I mentioned the price difference first (copies for three writers
was a little less than the one copy of WebWorks), Management was sold
when I mentioned Mif2Go's ease of use out of the box. Free upgrades
and tech support clinched the deal.
I'd already decided to add Mif2Go to my personal
software toolbox.
Thanks for providing an excellent product!
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Subject: RE: Scaling
From: Steve Kubis <skubis@....com>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 11:00:39 -0600
3) MIF2HTM seems to scale well. I've been working
with an HTML Help file that's not too large. (About 200 topics). It's
been fine. MIF2HTM easily churns through that HTML. Feeling brave, I
decided to let MIF2HTM churn through the documentation for our manufacturing
product. It's large. 500+ windows, along with hundreds of regular topics.
When all was finished, MIF2HTM had produced over 5000 .htm files with
no problems at all. The HTML Help Compiler was even able to chew through
all of those files to produce a .chm. The whole process took about 20
minutes on my P200. The speed is good, and the results are great!
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Subject: RE: Table indenting
From: Steve Kubis <skubis@....com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 17:38:32 -0600
I did get a chance to see one of the other help
files being generated here at Great Plains using MIF2GO and the FDK
plug-in I’m writing. It’s quite large - just under 6 meg.
It has several dozen procedures and documentation for over 300 windows.
Best of all, it was assembled by just one writer. She started working
on it about six months ago, as a complete FrameMaker, WinHelp, MIF2GO
novice. I’m really pleased to see the results. I’m especially
pleased because a year ago I told the managers for that product that
we’d be able to achieve these kinds of results if we used FrameMaker
and MIF2GO. Thank you for making that a reality!
Thanks!
Steve
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Subject: RE: MIF2RTF 28B Shipment
From: Margaret Beilby <margaret@....com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 10:48:14 -0800
..., we need to renew our license for your product.
The filter has been extremely helpful and we’ve used it a lot.
I notice that the upgraded version of the product now converts FM files
to HTML. This is wonderful!
...
Thanks,
Margaret Beilby
Manager, Technical Publications
Business Engine Software Corporation
430 N. Vineyard, 4th Floor
Ontario, CA 91764
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:02:51 -0800
Please feel free to use my comments on your web
site. This is a wonderful tool! I've recommended it to a number of people
and, quite frankly, it's saved my b*** a number of times.
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Subject: RE: FrameMaker to HTML questions
From: Carol Gilbert <cgilbert@....com>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:08:47 -0800
Yes, there is an alternative to WebWorks for
FrameMaker-to-HTML. It is mif2go. See http://www.omsys.com for more
details. It is a solid product that spins off RTF, WinHelp, as well
as HTML-- and at a much more favorable price than WebWorks.
Major Minus: the documentation.
Major Plus: Jeremy Griffiths is there for you
when you need him.
[Note: We’ve totally rewritten the docs
since then. ;-) --jhg]
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Subject: Satisfied Customer Report
From: Michael Sayer <mikes@....com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 09:13:29 -0800
This email is in the nature of a "Satisfied Customer
Report." I had received your MIF2GO software on 11/16/99. Today was
the first chance I had to install and use it. I got an urgent call from
one of our software developers saying he needed a copy of a process
description. The original documentation was done in Frame. I spent 20
minutes reading the three "Readme’s" and about 5 minutes installing
the software. I opened the original doc in Frame, used the Save as Mif2go...
and 30 seconds later had a book ready for my developer to use.
I shudder to think of how much time I would have
spent (read WASTED) doing this manually.
Thank you.
Gracias.
Danke schoen.
(Insert any other languages you all use).
You have an outstanding product, and I will so
state to anyone whom I know that uses FrameMaker. It’s a pleasure
having done business with you.
Michael Sayer
Technical Writer
Ask Jeeves (Formerly Net Effect Systems)
4144 Lankershim Blvd. Ste 200
North Hollywood CA 91602
818.752.6600 x.5138
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Subject: Re: Mif2Go as HTML converter - 3rd party
evals please
From: Carol Gilbert <cgilbert@....com>
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 13:10:59 -0700
I have no commercial interest in mif2go; I am
just a user. I have generated the RTF required for Windows help files
several times for FM books. It has performed very well for that task.
The documentation is poor, but the support is excellent and frequently
immediate. I have not tried it for HTML conversion yet but plan to do
so soon. I would recommend it. - Carol Gilbert
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Subject: RE: Upgrade: mif2rtf becomes mif2go
From: David Grieve <davidg@....com.au>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:31:22 +0800
Once again, thanks for your quick reply.
I think your filter is extremely good. It takes
a bit of time to set it all up, but then it saves hours afterwards.
I use the MIF2GO filter every day to quickly
and painlessly convert large Frame documents to winhelp, and I hope
to do the same with HTML. I have tried the Word ->RoboHelp->RoboHTML
loop and the results were very disappointing and involved hours of touching
up afterwards.
Keep up the good work
David Grieve
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Subject: Re: Saving as RTF
From: Shlomo Perets <shlomo@....com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:13:58 +0100
Especially if you need to produce WinHelp from
FrameMaker files, MIF2RTF is your only choice. It is very fast, and
even more important, *reliable*. Many nice features make the FM->WinHelp
process as painless as possible; spend some time reading the manual
before you start using it. Good and prompt technical support, too.
For WinHelp production purposes, I recommend
complementing MIF2RTF with IXgen (Frank Stearns), to handle the generation/editing
of index markers (converted by MIF2RTF to WinHelp keywords).
Shlomo Perets
MicroType
http://www.microtype.com
FrameMaker-to-Acrobat: TimeSavers / Advanced
Techniques Course / Solutions
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Subject: RE: Saving as RTF
From: Carol Gilbert <cgilbert@....com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:07:13 -0700
I think MIF2RTF is the only way to get reasonably
usable RTF files out of FM.
- Carol Gilbert
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Subject: Re: converting FM to online help
From: Carol Gilbert <cgilbert@....com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:41:23 -0700
I am a really new user of MIF2RTF so I cannot
claim vast knowledge of how it works, but I can tell you that my Windows
help generated with the product and the MS Help Compiler maintained
my callouts created in FM against my .bmp screen shots just fine. I
do not think you need a new product, but a new methodology.
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Subject: Re: MIF2RTF Update 28
From: doug.harris@....com
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 09:31:40 -0700
Jeremy,
The company that purchased your software has
been spun off from Rockwell International. It is now called Conexant
Systems, Inc. I was the keeper of the MIF2RTF filter and I am leaving
the company. Since any upgrades or notifications are made by email,
I am writing to inform you whom to contact here at Conexant.
As I am taking a position in a Carlsbad, CA,
company that uses FrameMaker, I may be calling you yet again for another
purchase of the filter in the near future. Thank you for your excellent
product and service.
Doug Harris
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Subject: Re: Mif2Rtf
From: "Bjørn Smalbro" <smalbro@....dk>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 11:18:58 +0200
I don’t know how much feedback you get
on you product Mif2Rtf, but I felt like giving you some. I works like
a dream, and makes an absolutetely splendid product.
I’m using it for converting native framemaker
to rtf. Ofcourse there are some snags. Some graphics come out in their
natural size and some graphics disappear, but when compared to my former
tool Filtrix from Blueberry, this is great and best of all: the customer
is satisfied!
Sincerely
Bjørn Smalbro
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Subject: RE: MIF2RTF Update 28
From: dpage@....com
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 14:10:18 -0800
This update should have come with trumpets and
horns blaring. :) What an improvement. It’s only taken me a short
while to get it up and running. ... I’m getting everything to
work great on Windows NT 4. ... Again, my compliments to your team.
It’s wonderful running MIF2RTF from within FrameMaker!
Darilyn Page
Technical Publications Manager
OnDisplay, Inc.
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Subject: MIF2RTF
From: IWestray@.....com
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:55:05 -0600
I don’t think I could be more impressed
with the filter. I spent a week trying to hammer out something usable
with the fully functional demo of Quadralay’s WebWorks. We got
better results without significantly changing the default settings in
MIF2RTF than I ever saw from Quadralay’s product.
We’ve only had your filter since you sent
it this morning, and I’ve worked out the vast majority of the
kinks that aren’t attributable to the limitations of Winhelp.
I’ve translated a hundred-page chunk of awkward, screen shot heavy,
cross-referenced documentation, without any serious trouble at all.
I’m a Mac user first ... Windows PCs in
general are like a dentist’s drill for me ... But MIF2RTF is much
easier to work with than WebWorks, and it got us better results faster,
hands down, no contest.
Ian Westray
Senior Technical Communicator
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Subject: Re: "Ordering Without The Risk"
From: gcornett@....com (Guy Cornett)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 09:14:38 -0500
I am amazed at your quick response to my request!
Thanks very much.
I had downloaded a demo copy of Web Works Publisher
and compared your default results to their default results. No comparison,
yours is much better. I then showed your help file to my manager and
senior tech writer (whose Framemaker file you converted). The conclusion
was a "No Brainer".
We are putting in a request to purchase your
program today! Thanks again!
Guy L. Cornett
mailto:gcornett@....com
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Subject: Re: Horrors of Upgrades
From: "Tim Altom" <taltom@....com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 10:13:21 -0500
FrameMaker’s original home wasn’t
Windows, but UNIX. ... Because Frame’s code wasn’t originally
designed for RTF conversion, its RTF capabilities are almost universally
considered to be substandard, and its WinHelp RTF is just about nowhere.
... Frame is awesomely powerful, but WinHelp wasn’t on its radar
scope for many years. Frame shops like ours have learned not to rely
on the built-in filters.
To fill the gap, third-party developers have
worked up marvelous filters to convert MIFs to various other things.
Chief among these for WinHelp is MIF2RTF from Omni Systems. We use it
extensively ...
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 14:09:21 -0500
The woods are so crammed with pretenders and
sloppy software that I’m always happy to use and promote software
that does what it says it’ll do. ... We just used the product
in a project with probably 200 topics and although I had to add a few
topics and links, the vast bulk of the work was done solely by mif2rtf.
And I’m not even using the product to its ultimate limits. You
betcha I can recommend it. ... I’d be happy to sell and train
on it, too. ...
Tim Altom
Simply Written, Inc.
317.899.5882
http://www.simplywritten.com
Creators of the Clustar Method for task-based
documentation
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Subject: Filter Tech Support
From: Alex Finlayson <Finlayso@....GOV.ON.CA>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 15:52:16 -0500
Thanks for the frequent updates to your filter.
It is a superb tool...
Thanks in advance for your help, and have a good
weekend.
Alex Finlayson
Technical Writer
Documentation Section
Operational Policy Office
Ministry of Transportation
Downsview, Ontario, Canada
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