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rja@gol.com (Ron Andrews) wrote:

>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?

Given your diverse formats - Quark, PageMaker, FrameMaker, you may
want to look at Adobe Acrobat because it does maintain the page
fidelity and take Postscript as its input.  Acrobat can be used on a
CD-ROM directly but is not HTML.  Most of the tools you mention have
add-ins that can create HTML from their files but this would require
one tool for each product.

There are some automated tools but if your documents are richly
formatted then it can be quite difficult.

>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?

See above.  You also might want to contact the search engine
manufacturers like Verity, etc.

>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 :-) .

>Ron


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>Ron Andrews             Heguri-cho, Japan            ron@adept.co.jp
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