Export or convert to html?

[yippiekyyay]

Hello forum,

I was wondering if someone could let me know if you can convert or export a pagemaker 7.0 document into html and, if so, how good of a job does it do?

Thanks in advance,

-Sean

 

[jimoblak]

yes - lousy

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, Sean,

I would take issue with Jimoblak - they're not nearly that good!

The preferred route is to create a PDF, upload that to your website and create a link to it.

Iechyd da! John
03:19 03/02/03 GMT

 

[yippiekyyay]

Thanks Guys,

my issue is that my boss wants a pdf and an html equivalent. I only have a quark file which I could convert into Pagemaker (which is why I asked). The document is loaded with text especially lined up (not using tables) - so far all attempts to convert it into anything else have left me with either the text not aligned properly, our hundreds (maybe even thousands!) of spacer .gifs to fill in the spaces.

Thanks again,

-Sean

 

[BionicJohn]

Hi, Sean,

PM is very precise page layout software, HTML is just text with the user having the option to change fonts, colours and so on.

If you want webpages, you'll need to create them with suitable software like Dreamweaver or GoLive, either using your corporate style sheet or from a blank page, in both cases pasting in the text and graphics from PM.

Iechyd da! John
17:33 03/02/03 GMT

 

[yippiekyyay]

Hey BigJohnD,

what I didn't say in my earlier posts was that I'm in charge of our website. I don't write any of these documents - I just put them up on the site (usually just in pdf). This time though, my co-worker handed me a Quark file which pdf'd fine, but is a major pain to do anything else with.

All of these html converters have different outputs when you look at the code - some create file sizes that are unacceptably large. I'm not complaining - I just wanted to find the best one so that next time someone hands me a file (with no original plain text document to go with it), then I'll know immediately what my best options are.

Thanks again everyone!

-Sean

 

[Vida]

If you are more concerned with clear text and usable tables, than with pretty pages, you would be better off to extract the text (RTF from the pdf, or from PageMaker) and clean it up in Word. Then save it as HTML. Good idea to open it in Dreamweaver and run Clean up Word HTML. Then you can paste that code into your pages. Especially good for tables.

I believe you can lift tables from a pdf with the PC version of Acrobat.

 

[yippiekyyay]

Thanks Vida!

not just that, but I found a plug-in call Jade (from BCL). It does the same thing but much better (for rtf).

-Sean