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Re: Quark to html
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United States		 2008-03-01 11:26:34 

  


  

    
Wow, this question takes me back a few years! I used to use an plugin
from Extensis to do this over 10 years ago. It was fairly reliable but
did require a lot of tweaking. Unfortunately, they no longer make it.



Couple of options: easiest would be to copy and paste text into new
Joomla content items. You'd lose the formatting but that helps keep a
site looking all the same. There is an HTML export feature built into
Quark called the HTML Text Export Filter. Finally, there are plugins
currently being developed and sold that do the Quark->HTML
export...more info available here:


Too bad the PDF indexer didn't work - that would have been the best, I
think.



Best-

Graham







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Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 08:54:13 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [joomla] Quark to html
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Has anyone converted quark docs to html?

I have a client whose print newsletter is done in Quark and they want to have it on their Joomla site and searchable.

Their old newsletters are in pdf and I bought the pdf indexer but they don't like it because it doesn't find the page where the keywords are located.

I downloaded QuarkXpress and tried exporting to html but it exported the text as a graphic image, which of course is not searchable.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Donna
  




  

  
  
   
     
    

  

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     2008-03-03 11:26:06
  


  

    

  


  

    On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Graham Spice < grahamnuthinwerked.com">grahamnuthinwerked.com> wrote:




  


Too bad the PDF indexer didn't work - that would have been the best, I
think.



Adobe had the chance to make pdf the format of choice for moving print media to the web. 

They dropped that ball long ago. pdf's work for what they are --portable documents--  but are completely inadequate for websites. 


Since indexing doesn't work, you're just as well off to go with Flash. Oh, and lose the Quark too. 

InDesign supports XML templating for print and while it has an export function for web based workflows, IMO the better solution is just to call the same XML from Flash that you call from InDesign for print. Easy peasy. 


Obviously this leaves the indexibility problem unsolved, but preserves the design. Fixing indexibility may likely be a matter of passing off the XML  page to the correct handler. If anyone is really interested in this, I'll save it for another email. 


HTH, 

Forest
-- 
"In theory, theory and practice are exactly the same. 
 In practice, they're completely different." 



 



  

  
  
   
     
    






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