[thelist] MS Publisher to Web

[Debbie Pomerance]

>
> > 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 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.
>
> --
>

Thank you for all the suggestions.  I think my best bet is to use Publisher
to print to a pdf using the products mentioned in this thread and then just
putting the pdf on the web.  I would love to recommend Adobe InDesign but it
is too pricey for a non-profit.

Debbie P.


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