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In article <4q9upe$qid@gol2.gol.com>, 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?

Pagemaker V6, at least, has an option to output either HTML or Adobe
Acrobat directly from Pagemaker. If you're looking for CD-ROM delivery,
either format could work. Acrobat gives much better control over 
formatting. They also have an software program that builds an index
to a collection of PDF (Acrobat) files so that the end user can do
a search on the whole collection.

I suspect that Quark and Framemaker have options to do this as well.

...
> 
> 3) Interactive CDROMs....  are there software tools and hardware that 
> are better suited for this kind of task than others?
> 
This is a fairly deep question. If you just want to put a lot of text
documents on CD-ROM, these 2 aren't such a bad way to go. One nice
side effect is that you can also put the docs on a Web site without
too much extra effort. But if you want multimedia and interactivity,
you can do better than these tools.

Dean W.

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Shadow Hills (LA), CA, USA      deanraff@wave7.com
(818) 353-8652

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.
4 Market Square, Amersham, Bucks, HP7 0DQ, United Kingdom
      
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            www: http://www.sundance.com/

In article <T0OaANAcHlyxEwdH@smta> "Mark I. Cartlidge" <mic@smta.demon.co.uk> writes:
>From: "Mark I. Cartlidge" <mic@smta.demon.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: How to Convert DTP Files to HTML?
>Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 08:40:12 +0100

>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 don't know about the CD-Rom part, but don't overlook PageMaker 6's HTML 
plug-in. It's lame, but it does convert PM files to HTML. The problem is that 
very little of what you can do in PM can be translated to HTML, so if your 
document is complex, the plug-in is pretty useless. If your PM file is simple, 
or you designed it for this purpose, you may get reasonable results. The 
problem is not that the plug-in is bad, it's the inherent incompatiblity 
between the formats.

E-mail me if you have questions about it. I used it quite a bit.

> >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?
> >
> 
> 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???

While you may think I should be an expert on this because of my email
address, I'm not, but I'll take a shot at it.

PageMaker 6.0 comes with an "addition" called "HTML Author.add."  I
believe it's in your PageMaker:RSRC:Plugins directory.  I can't vouch for
the abilities of this plugin, I just build the installation sets.  If
"HTML Author" isn't installed, re-install and just select the "Plugins"
group, you should find it there.

I'm unsure about FrameMaker and Quark's HTML generating capabilities.  I
believe FrameMaker focuses more on SGML exporting.

Acrobat provides the solution you seem to be looking for.  You can "print"
to .PDF(Acrobat) from PageMaker or you can use Acrobat Distiller to create
.PDF from any app that outputs PostScript.  "Acrobat Catalog" provides the
CDROM search engine you seem to be looking for.  Use Acrobat Catalog to
create an index to all the .PDFs on your CD.  Catalog comes with a version
of the Acrobat Reader that contains a search engine, and a license to
distribute the "search enabled" Reader on your CD.  You can create "URL
type" links within and across multiple .PDF files.

.PDF files can be viewed/printed on any platform that has a reader,
regardless of where they were created, Mac, Windows, DOS or Unix(many
different varieties).

Adobe probably has an 800 number for sales info, but I don't know what it
is.  Try 415-961-4400, ask for sales.  Have them send you an "Adobe
Acrobat CD Sampler" CD, it has samples and descriptions of all Acrobat
versions.  .PDF viewing will soon be part of your Netscape browser.  If
you just want a lesson on what .PDF is and how it relates to HTML, call
and have Adobe send you one of these CDs, they're free.  Good luck.

-- 
These are my opinions, and not necessarily those of my employer.  alan.johnson@adobe.com

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
>                                                         rja@gol.com

alan.johnson@adobe.com (Alan Johnson) wrote:

>> >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?

Astrobyte has BeyondPress for Quark to HTML. See 			
	http://www.astrobyte.com/

>> >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 

 The June CD-ROM Professional has an article on search engines. See: 
	http://www.onlineinc.com/cdrompro/

>I'm unsure about FrameMaker and Quark's HTML generating capabilities.  I
>believe FrameMaker focuses more on SGML exporting.

The new Cyberleaf2.0 for WindowsNT/95 will import Framemaker I
believe.
	http://www.ileaf.com/

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