Re: Converting files

by "Michael Gerholdt" <gerholdt(at)ait.fredonia.edu>

Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:03:03 -0400
To:	"Mike Eovino" <meovino(at)erols.com>, "Chuck Pratt" <cops(at)firstcop.com>, "hwg-graphics" <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
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>> Have been given a site which ws done in MS Publisher 97 which needs
to
>> be completely re-worked.
>>
>> Is there any logical way to convert it to a real HTML file that will
>> enable me to make
>> changes using either Netscape Composer, Arachnofilia, or Word?


>
>I don't know how Publisher writes its HTML.  If it's like Word, it
writes
>"real" HTML, it's just REAL bad (lots of unnecessary tags, uses tables
quite
>often, etc.).

I reduced the size of an html doc produced by MS Publisher 97 from an
original 27K to 6K. It had tables nested in tables nested in tables -
mostly empty cells. Horrendous!

The resulting page looked nearly identical to the original, certainly
lost nothing in terms of presentation.

I basically did this by hand; if I go back to do the rest of the pages
I'd write some clips in NoteTab Pro to help automate it.

Michael Gerholdt

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