[thelist] batch conversion of word to html

Herzog, Ari Ari_Herzog at Instron.com
Thu Dec 7 16:34:59 CST 2000


As a postscript, you may wish to send an email to Macromedia's folks to
consider adding as either a patch or in a future release. Also, someone may
have created a custom script.

Suggest subscribing to the DW list at
http://www.egroups.com/group/Macromedia_Dreamwvr

-----Original Message-----
From: McCreath_David [mailto:McCreath_David at xmail.asd.k12.ak.us]
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 4:59 PM
To: 'thelist at lists.evolt.org'
Subject: RE: [thelist] batch conversion of word to html


Hi, Zach --

I've gone down this path before, and although I never tried AppleScript, I
never found a super-duper automated way to do it.

Two things that have been suggested on this topic on the list before are
HTMLTidy and BBEdit. I ended up using BBEdit and it's RegEx search and
replace feature. It's not exactly automated, but you can save your
expressions for future use and BBEdit will fairly rip through dozens of HTML
files in a batch.

It's worth looking at if for no other reason than it's a good intro to
Regular Expressions if you've never used them before.

Dave

>I've dug up an AppleScript that will convert a batch of Word files to HTML,
>using Word's "save as HTML" feature. What I'm looking for now is a way to
>script Dreamweaver so a batch of HTML files can be cleaned up using the
>"clean up Word HTML" feature.
>
>Dreamweaver doesn't appear to have much of an AppleScript dictionary...does
>anyone have any thoughts on this subject?

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