Omni Systems, Inc. Mif2Go User's Guide, Version 55
> 1 Getting started with Mif2Go > 1.2 What you need to have
To use Mif2Go your computer system should be equipped as follows:
In addition to Mif2Go, you will need at least some of the following software:
File comparison tool (optional)
Ancillary tools for Help output.
You will need Adobe FrameMaker version 5.5.6 or a later version. Mif2Go supports FrameMaker versions 9 and 10, with the following exceptions:
To work with configuration files you will need a text editor, such as Notepad, that uses ANSI or UTF-8 encoding; do not use UTF-16.
File comparison tool (optional)
If you modify any of the local configuration files provided with your Mif2Go distribution, you might find it helpful to have a file comparison tool such as WinMerge; see §1.3.8 Obtain a file comparison tool (optional).
To have Mif2Go automatically archive the output from your conversion
projects for safe storage or for distribution, you will need an archiving
program that can be run from a Windows command line, such as WinZip (via
wzzip
) or PKZip.
Ancillary tools for Help output
If you intend to generate on-line Help, you will need one or more of the following tools; see §1.3.5 Obtain tools for Help systems or eBooks:
To produce Asian code-page output, such as for
HTML Help in Japanese, you will also need two enormous ICU DLLs: icudt40.dll
(13MB) and icuuc40.dll
(1MB). These DLLs are
available in archive icu401.zip
(6 MB), which
you can download from the Omni Systems Web site. These DLLs are not needed
for RTF output.