[Web4lib] word/html converter

[Jon Goodell]

Another very good option for newsletter publishing is OpenOffice.org.
You can download it for free.  The current version is a big improvement
over previous ones and it makes saving to PDF very easy.  In the past
OpenOffice.org would have trouble opening some MS Word documents and
Excel spreadsheets, but I have not had a misfire on this one yet.  :)

http://www.openoffice.org/

Jon Goodell
Technology Services & Reference Librarian
Ottenheimer Library - Pulaski Technical College
North Little Rock, AR
501-812-2718
jgoodell at pulaskitech.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bloy
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 5:02 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] word/html converter

Sarah Smith wrote:
>We have a word doc with text boxes galore that make up our newsletter.
>We are able to save the Word doc as html up to about 2 pages worth.
>Past two pages, things start to get jumbled up. I've looked into MS 
>Publisher and Adobe Acrobat and neither of those seems to be a viable 
>option.

Is converting to PDF not viable because of the cost of Adobe Acrobat
software?  If so, there are free utilities available that let you create
PDFs.

In a past job (where I didn't have access to Acrobat) I used PrimoPDF.
If you do an internet search for "free pdf" there are quite a few
alternatives.


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Jonathan Bloy
Web Services Librarian
Edgewood College
Madison, Wisconsin
http://library.edgewood.edu
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