Omni Systems, Inc. Mif2Go User's Guide, Version 55

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## 1.1 What you need to know

To use Mif2Go effectively, it is best if all the following apply:

• You are intimately acquainted with the structure of your FrameMaker document.

• You understand the output type to which you are converting your document.

• You have a good idea which FrameMaker features and formats you want to map to which output features.

Conversions to a final format such as HTML or RTF are easy, and you can often wing it, achieving acceptable output with default options in just a few minutes. But conversions to another source format, such as DocBook or DITA XML, can be Very Hard. There are no shortcuts. You might need days or weeks to get it right, working with small test documents, before you can go into production.

In this section:

§1.1.1 How Mif2Go is organized

§1.1.2 File, directory, and path names

§1.1.3 Output types you can specify

§1.1.4 Languages and character sets