Re: Pulling text from Quark dynamically?

XML is probably the best option.

Look for an XML export plug-in.  Or maybe a version of Quark supports XML
exporting.  Not sure.

Tim




----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Taylor" <lonewolf(at)one.net>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 3:44 PM
Subject: Pulling text from Quark dynamically?


> The company I work for uses Quark to produce its snail-mail
> newsletters.  We are looking to make this an online version as
> well.  Judging from the Quark file copy I've been given, I'd have to
> manually copy and paste text and graphics out of this file into straight
> HTML pages.
>
> This seems like a hideously and unnecessarily manual process, and wondered
> if anyone out there has ever successfully pulled data from a Quark file
> dynamically.  We use ASP pages, for example, and the FileSystemObject
> allows us to pull data directly from a flat file or even an MS Word
> document.
>
> When I suggested that they first produce their newsletter in Word or a
> text file, they objected, because apparently you have to do some modifying
> in Quark to get text to wrap around pre-defined areas properly.  This
> usually means editting the copy to make it fit, which would preclude using
> Word to create the copy in first.
>
> I hope this makes sense.  If anyone knows of a feature in Quark that
> allows you to extract data into a format that's easily manageable, I'd
> appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>

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