[Web4lib] word/html converter

[John Fereira]

At 04:02 PM 7/10/2006, Thomas Dowling wrote:
>On 7/10/2006 3:17 PM, Sarah Smith wrote:
>
> > We have a word doc with text boxes galore that make up our newsletter.
>
>
>If that means you're trying to recreate a heavily formatted that was
>really created as desktop publishing, I'd advise not even trying to
>convert it to HTML; the result will probably please no one.
>
>Put it up as PDF, or start from scratch with a reasonably good HTML
>editor.  That isn't black magic by any means, and will go quickly if you
>can copy and paste out of those text boxes galore.

Agree with all of this.  What's needed is a basic Content Management 
System although that isn't likely going to help much if one wants to 
render already existing word documents in multiple formats.

Check out a PDF printer driver (don't recall what it's called but I 
found it with Google).  From a Word document one can just "print" to 
the PDF driver and it'll create a PDF version.   I did it for a 50 
page scoping study I wrote and the PDF version looked better than 
than the word document (that's what the contractor asked for 
initially) so I used it for printing the hard copies.



>--
>Thomas Dowling
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Web4lib mailing list
>Web4lib at webjunction.org
>http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/

John Fereira
jaf30 at cornell.edu
Ithaca, NY