MyOwnFreeMindExport

Downloads

• Windows installation package: Setup_MyOwnFreeMindExport.exe
• Zip package: Zip_MyOwnFreeMindExport.zip
• Last update: 2007-04-30

Info

• What is this?
• How to...
• Examples
• What are the conversion rules?
• Contact information
• On the web / download

What is this?

• MyOwnFreeMindExport is a conversion tool which converts a FreeMind mindmap file to an HTML document.
• The tool consists of two parts:
  • An XSLT conversion script which can be used on any platform
    • Note: The conversion is only tested under Windows XP using Microsoft MSXML
  • A Visual Basic Script extension to the context menu in Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Supports FreeMind 0.8 and 0.9 including the attributes extension and rich content in nodes and notes.

How to...

• ...Install
  • Run setup.exe
• ...Use
  • Follow the steps 1-7 below:
  • In FreeMind
    • Save your mindmap (Ctrl+S)
    • Export to HTML (Ctrl+E)
  • In Internet Explorer
    • Right-click the HTML document created by FreeMind in the export, and select the menu item FreeMindExport
    • Change settings if required
    • Press the button "Go"
• ...Remove
  • Use "Add/remove programs" in Control Panel to remove MyOwnFreeMindExport
• ...Customise
  • Settings
    • Settings can be changed throught the GUI of MyOwnFreeMindExport and are stored in an XML file which is loaded on every run of MyOwnFreeMindExport.
    • The settings are these:
      • Show icons
        • Adds textual representations of icons to output.
      • Show clouds
        • Adds representations of clouds to output using borders and the cload background colour.
      • Show background colours
        • Adds node background colours to output
      • Show parents in bold
        • Makes a node bold in output if it has children
      • Show table of contents
        • Creates a ToC with hyperlinks to all top level nodes
      • Show attributes
        • If there are attributes in the mindmap they are displayed in output
      • Show document info
        • Adds footer with document info to output
      • Use own translation file
        • Translates icons to text using a file called MyOwnFreeMindTranslations.xml placed in the same folder as the mindmap.
  • Translations
    • How icons are translated to text is determined by the file MyOwnFreeMindExportTranslations.xml
      • Follow the link to see the translation file [ MyOwnFreeMindExportTranslations.xml?] Look here
    • You may want to translate the built-in icons differently.
      • One option it to modify the distributed MyOwnFreeMindExportTranslations.xml
      • However, the best approach is to take a copy of MyOwnFreeMindExportTranslations.xml, place it in the same folder as your mindmaps, modify the copy, and check the "Use own translation file" setting.
  • Style
    • You can control the appearence of output by modifying the CSS part of MyOwnFreeMindExport.xsl

Examples

• See this mindmap as an HTML document
  • MyOwnFreeMindExport.mm.html ]
• Try to convert the freemind documentation mindmap to see how all the different layout possibilities and physical styles are converted.

What are the conversion rules?

• All nodes are shown unfolded in the output.

Contact information

• Send e-mail to freemindexport at this domain.

On the web / download

• rosenlundnielsen.dk/go/freemindexport [ http://rosenlundnielsen.dk/go/freemindexport]