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Ron Andrews (rja@gol.com) 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 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?

You cant, by and large... there are a few programs that claim to do this,
and Acrobat comes very close, but html is not compatible with dtp. ie. no
tracking, kerning, rotating etc, and no precise control anywhere... In
fact every browser that looks at you html will see (or not see) your pages
differently. To really do it right, you have to re-build the files to deal
with the limitations of html, and I'm going to shout here, TO TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF IT'S CAABILITIES! (sorry) 

 : 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?

there are a whole bunch of html specific newsgroups, try there...

: 
: 3) Interactive CDROMs....  are there software tools and hardware that 
: are better suited for this kind of task than others?

I like Director (Macromedia) for that kind of stuff, but it's not html...
You can do much more interactive programming though. And for CD-roms, html
is not what I would choose to do such a project.

Michael