[thelist] MS Publisher to Web

[Stephen]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:43:11AM -0500 or thereabouts, T. R. Valentine wrote:
> On 30/05/06, Debbie Pomerance <debbie.pomerance at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Can you be a bit more specific on how the conversion MS Pub does from a
> > printable newsletter to HTML is done poorly - what can I expect to see -
> > what will I need to clean up before posting on the web?
> 
> I inherited a site where the HTML pages were done via a conversion
> from MS Publisher. Then someone made a 'little tweak' and it stopped
> working in any non-IE browser. That's when they turned to me.
> 
> Most of the pages had to be completely redone. Result: average size of
> page went from 60k to 4k and it worked in all browsers. (Most of their
> users are dial-up!)

I haven't tried this, but could you write to postscript, bring into
Adobe Acrobat and save as HTML ?

Publisher isn't ideal for doing any kind of professional work -- But
then I suspect you know this. If you are in a position to recommend
software to your client -- Recommend they use Scribus rather than
Publisher. Scribus works on Windows/Linux/MacOS X and more information
can be found here (OpenSource);
<http://www.scribus.net/>

The ideal solution in my mind would be the client using Adobe InDesign,
which supports XML/HTML export.

-- 
Regards
Stephen
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