[WEB4LIB] Converting from Word or WordPerfect to HTML

[Judy Myers]

The best I've found is Arachnophilia, an HTML editor that is a free
download -- sorry, I don't remember where I found it. I tried several
(mostly the free or shareware ones), including HTML Assistant and HTML
Tool, and Arachnophilia converted more formatting than anything else. It
put in some unnecessary duplicative <font> tags, but the files worked as
converted.  

It may be that for some word processors it is necessary to save the file in
RTF (from within the word processor -- RTF will preserve the fonts and
attributes such as underline), before feeding it to the HTML
editor/conversion program, but Arachnophilia reads a lot of word processsor
native formats as well.

Sincerely,


At 07:46 PM 2/11/99 -0800, you wrote:
>I've been given some Word and WordPerfect documents to put on the 
>library's web pages, and I've found that the WordPerfect and other 
>conversion programs I have seem to do a pretty wretched job of converting 
>into HTML.  The odd program-specific codes were to be expected, given past 
>performance, but what threw me was that none of the programs I tried 
>(Word, WordPerfect, or Adobe PageMill) seemed to put in the codes for 
>underlined text.  I went back and added all the <u> </u> codes by hand 
>which was very tedious.
>
>Can anyone recommend a conversion program that does a smoother job of 
>converting from the most common word processing formats into HTML?  Even 
>if they only saved me the need to add text enhancements like boldface, 
>italic, and underline codes, they'd be a time saver.  The basic document 
>structures in this case were pretty simple, but there was a lot of 
>emphasized text.     
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