[Web4lib] word/html converter

[Clinton Lowery]

One thing you can do to get quality PDFs of multi-page Office Documents is (buy & ) install Adobe Acrobat 6.0+ .  If you've already got MS Office on your computer, Acrobat will install an Adobe toolbar in the Office applications, just make sure you can access it.  Once it is, just hit the 'Convert to PDF' shortcut.

>From my experience, if you install Office after Adobe, you may need to have the correct drivers re-installed to enable to the toolbar as it may have been overlooked.

Another option for converting Word to HTML is Dreamweaver.  If you have it, create a basic HTML page, then go to the Design view and select File > Import Word document and it will import the document.  Then go to Command > Clean Up Word HTML and it will strip out most of the mso garbage that wasn't cleaned during the import.

Clinton

Clinton Lowery, Librarian
Integrated Library Systems
Jacksonville Public Library
3435 University Blvd N
Jacksonville, FL 32277-2464
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clowery at coj.net

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John Fereira <jaf30 at cornell.edu> wrote: 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.



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John Fereira
jaf30 at cornell.edu
Ithaca, NY 

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