38.3 Converting to ASCII DCL

When you specify ASCII DCL as the output type, Mif2Go saves all the files in your FrameMaker document in MIF format, and then converts the MIF files to ASCII DCL files (with extension .dcl) instead of the usual binary DCL files (with extension .dcb), and stops there.

You can use this feature to export embedded graphics from your FrameMaker document so you can convert them outside of Mif2Go, or replace them, before you continue the conversion; see §5.7.3.2 Processing embedded graphics separately.

You can use Perl scripts to extract information from the DCL files to integrate with other documents from non-FrameMaker sources. Perl can parse DCL files much easier than it can parse MIF files.

You can also create DCL files, modify them to remap something on the way from FrameMaker to RTF or HTML, then run Mif2Go again to finish the conversion, starting from the modified DCL files.

For more information, see:

§38.4 Generating ASCII DCL output

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