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Article #205Re: How to Convert DTP Files to HTML?
From: Mark I. Cartlidge
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <4q9upe$qid@gol2.gol.com>, Ron Andrews <rja@gol.com> writes
>Hello,
>
>Does anyone know where I can get more info, like web sites, mailing
>lists, FAQs, offline books, etc., about converting DTP-formatted
>(Pagemaker, framemaker, Quark, etc.) data to HTML and then onto CDROM?
>
>I am running both Mac and Windows (as well as some x-windows), but am
>ready to do/get whatever it takes for me to do this job. On the other
>hand, I of course am looking for what's best for the money too.
>
>I have a lot of files in Pagemaker, Framemaker, Quark, and other
>formats, and seek to create two types of CDROMs with these documents.
>First, one primarily for document storage with search capabilities,
>and another one that is more interactive. My questions are fairly
>basic - like:
>
>1) how to do it, i.e., convert DTP-format files to html (and other
>sgml languages for that matter) - Are there automated tools to do
>this?
>
>2) I don't really have a clue at the moment about the easiest methods
>of putting these files/documents onto a CDROM and then adding a
>reasonably efficient and easy-to-use search engine. Where can I find
>this info?
>
>3) Interactive CDROMs.... are there software tools and hardware that
>are better suited for this kind of task than others?
>
>Thanks very much for any help for these somewhat vague questions. As I
>continue scanning the web, newsgroups, etc., that's about where I am
>in my thought process right now :-) .
I would like to know this too.
So far I have heard that Adobe Acrobat offers this sort of capability
and that Ventura 7 is due in July with an SGML export option???
Any feeback would be welcome.
Mark Cartlidge
Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd.
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