Okay, I am new dealing with quark and am trying to help a publication company find the quickest and most functional way to turn Quark or PDF files into HTML and the code still needs to be fairly clean so that a text editor could be used for any quick changes and removing and images that we are not allowed to use on the web version. Any ideas. I have already tried to see about Beyond Press(no longer manufactored) and PDFtoHTML (does not seem to be available for testing) and PDF converter (looks great on the web but not clean html)
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There are a couple ways to go...
1) Upgrade to Quark 6 which uses something called 'layout spaces'. Instead of creating a single document, you can create a printed and web-based 'space' of the same content. When you update content in one, the other space is updated.
2) Move to InDesign and GoLive. InDesign can 'package for GoLive' by making an archive of media and a PDF preview. The PDF preview window is opened in GoLive and you can easily drag and drop elements into your web layout. This method is almost a 'no-brainer'.
Previous methods to export or convert HTML from these page layout applications were a joke. The current methods still have their own unique failings.
Ideally, one would have a content management system where authors could contribute articles and images via a web browser to a central server. The submitted data would then be available as XML data. That XML could be imported into applications like Quark, InDesign, Dreamweaver, or GoLive. These design applications would become end-nodes in the publishing chain and would not need to export to each other.
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1) Upgrade to Quark 6 which uses something called 'layout spaces'. Instead of creating a single document, you can create a printed and web-based 'space' of the same content. When you update content in one, the other space is updated.
2) Move to InDesign and GoLive. InDesign can 'package for GoLive' by making an archive of media and a PDF preview. The PDF preview window is opened in GoLive and you can easily drag and drop elements into your web layout. This method is almost a 'no-brainer'.
Previous methods to export or convert HTML from these page layout applications were a joke. The current methods still have their own unique failings.
Ideally, one would have a content management system where authors could contribute articles and images via a web browser to a central server. The submitted data would then be available as XML data. That XML could be imported into applications like Quark, InDesign, Dreamweaver, or GoLive. These design applications would become end-nodes in the publishing chain and would not need to export to each other.
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The HTML export is handled with CSS to approximate the style of the original layout. A browser as old as Netscape 6 or IE 4 should render the page pretty well.
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