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Re: Any good idea to convert Microsoft Word text to html form



Weeeeelll,

As a user of GoLive, and a big fan of it, I don't know that it will solve
the basic problem the original user had.  There's no quick feature that I
know of with GoLive that will allow you to convert to HTML without requiring
the same time-consuming clean-up the poster was trying to avoid.

Every time I've had to turn a Word doc into HTML with Adobe, I get strange
layout problems - extra <br> tags in weird places & additional paragraphs
that didn't exist in the original, and I've had to go back & clean them up
manually.

This is nothing compared to my current project, where my brilliant idea of
scanning old Press Releases has led to the nightmare of Adobe's poor OCR
abilities.  My purchase of Capture was supposed to save me time, and instead
I'm wasting hours correcting gibberish that appears like so:

"contact IIo~pit~Kt Fieadquarters imediatolg at Great Ueck 4-0800."

Translated, that means "contact Hospital Headquarters immediately at Great
Neck 4-8800", but not to Capture.

Well, I've wandered off topic, but I'm sick and it's been a long week.  My
original point is still what I meant to write - GoLive may not solve all the
problems.

DS

______________________________________
Daniel Sokolow, Archives Coordinator
David Taylor Archives
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
155 Community Drive
Great Neck, NY 11021
mailto:dsokolow@nshs.edu


-----Original Message-----
From: Jorge Afonso Silva Paulo [mailto:jorge_afonso_paulo@HOTMAIL.COM]
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 1:27 PM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: Any good idea to convert Microsoft Word text to html form


Some time ago I used to work with Adobe PageMill. It was the best editor for
Word files, simply because there are capable to transform those files
imediatly and without any problem. But Adobe end up the development on
PageMill after 2000. Now Adobe have another editor, the GoLive, more
powerful for the same work. See this and others applications for Web design
at http://www.adobe.com/web/main.html.

Best regards,
Jorge Afonso
Archivist
Loures Municipal Archive
Portugal

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