[WEB4LIB] Re: Converting from Word or WordPerfect to HTML

[Andrew Mutch]

You can find Arachnophilia at:

http://www.winfiles.com

and I'm sure a lot of other places too.  I just started using it as my text
editor for HTML because it is a freebie and although it has some quirks, for a
free product is has a lot of great features.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

Judy Myers wrote:

> 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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