Advice on posting documents please

[yippiekyyay]

Hello forum,

I am new to website maintenance. I program my own pages and any documents to be posted (they are Word, Quark, PageMaker - many others!) I convert to pdf.

Things have changed now though - everytime we post a pdf we have to post the html equivalent. Word is no problem - to save time, I'll throw it into FrontPage and then tweak the code from there. Files like Quark however are a different story - it's a nightmare!

I'll deal with these the hard way for now, but I need to come up with a standard or policy ASAP. I was thinking of suggesting that every document must be finalised in Word first - and then you can do whatever you want for the print document.

Before suggesting this though I thought I'd check with people who know (you people!) just in case there are better solutions or common practices that I should be implementing instead.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

-Sean

 

[GUJUm0deL]

Sean, i'd say you had the right idea all along, that is have the documents in WOrd format intially... I have not failed; I have merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...

 

[tanderso]

Many programs now have an option to convert to HTML, or there are third-party programs to convert them into HTML. If you can, I would post all documents as HTML. That is the web standard, so why go with non-standard formats? Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
Order amid Chaos, Inc.

http://www.oac-design.com

 

[yippiekyyay]

Thanks for the replies everyone!

Tom - it was the html conversion output that lead to this post! I wasn't satisfied with the html export from Quark, so I tried converting that into PageMaker to see how that would do (same result).

Bottom line is that you can consciously post a pdf if you post an rtf or basic text equivalent - but getting that text isn't always that easy!

Thanks again,

-Sean

 

[tanderso]

I've used PDFtoHTML (

http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net)

to convert PDF files to HTML with great success. I don't know if this runs on Windows though. Search the web for other third-party conversion software. Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
Order amid Chaos, Inc.

http://www.oac-design.com