topic AIA specification generator-to Word-to AC10 problem in Collaboration with other software

AIA specification generator-to Word-to AC10 problem

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:37:29 GMT

Anyone else out there using the AIA specification generator for specifications?

The AIA software turns out text in a .doc format that we may or may not edit in Word, then we cut & paste into the layout pages for our specs (on small jobs; on large ones we produce a manual for the job). I bring them in as text so I can format them to fit our column widths on our D or F pages.

What happens is that when I bring them in (regardless of wether or not they've been edited in Word), almost all of the spaces are replaced by a box with an x in it (like you'd get when hitting an Fkey that the text editor can't read).

The only way I can make it go away is to open each document in Word and do a search and replace of all of the spaces in the document...with new spaces (thank God for the "search entire document" feature!). It takes forever if I have many documents, which I invariably do because the AIA generator creates a separate document for each division.

Any ideas? Thanks for the help.

Re: AIA specification generator-to Word-to AC10 problem

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:47:52 GMT

I know this isn't helpful - I haven't been able to get a good consistent workflow with putting any specs into Plotmaker. Also, I've never used the AIA spec generator.

Option 1: Upgrade to 10 so you can place pdf's.
Option 2: Use Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress to layout the spec sheets

If anyone does have a bright idea that I can implement here before the imminent v11, I'll look forward to seeing it...

Wes

Re: AIA specification generator-to Word-to AC10 problem

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:55:52 GMT

Thanks.

I now realize that my signature is out of date. I am working on v10. Setting up a pdf seems to be just as time-consuming. I'll have to look in to Quark.