Web Publisher 1.1 software -Reply

[Earl Young]

     Microsoft products will do the job efficiently if your volume is low 
     enough that you're not concerned with labor costs.  A major advantage 
     of WebPublisher is that you can operate it in a batch mode.  You aim 
     WebPublisher at a directory, for instance, and press a button.  You 
     look later and it has converted all of the files.  They can run at 
     night - which frees the station for tasks for which human attention is 
     more appropriate.  Microsoft, Adobe, and other software players offer 
     reasonable conversion tools that will do a job, but they kill you on 
     labor and tie up machines.  Thus "volume" becomes the major variable.
     
     Earl Young


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Subject: Web Publisher 1.1 software -Reply
Author:  DLESTER at bsu.idbsu.edu at INTERNET
Date:    6/6/97 11:08 AM


>>> Karen Thomas <THOMAS at cua.edu> 06/05/97 05:35pm 
>>>
I searched the archives for HTML editors/converters, but Web 
Publisher 1.1
by Skisoft was not mentioned.  Has anyone used Web
Publisher 1.1 to convert Word Perfect, Word, and Excel files?
  I would appreciate any experiences,
pros/cons etc.
     
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I've not tried that software, but for what you describe we've 
found that Word97 does a fine job with all of those, even 
WP6.1 and WP5.1.  The WP files usually need a little more 
"cleanup" or reformatting than others.   Also, we use Excel97 
to directly publish our monthly statistics on various things 
directly to the web.  Clean and easy.  In fact, a student asst
does it routinely.   The pages are within our Intranet structure, 
which is blocked to those outside of the library, but I'll be glad 
to put some examples on a public server if anyone is
interested.
     
cheers
     
dan
Dan Lester, Network Information Coordinator
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