Conversions from "DOC" to "HTML"

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Oct 11 08:08:04 MST 2006


I have a lot of documents to convert from Microsoft 'doc' format to html

I have found a number of tools to do that but it doesn't really clean
them up very well which means that I will have to do a lot of hand edits
which isn't so bad considering that I will undoubtedly have to do this
anyway to get a common css and common headers/footers, etc.

If anyone has suggestions on best methods for the above, I would
appreciate it but thus far, I see little better than openoffice macros
which do this in bulk (conversions).

More importantly though, there is a structure to the storage...

Base (subdirectory)
  Section 1 (subdirectory)
    Section 1A (document)
    Section 1B (document)
  Section 2 (subdirectory)
    Section 2A (document)

etc. and I would love for some methodology to build a table of
contents/links to these documents automatically - and possibly even
output the end result (the whole enchilada) perhaps in PDF so that I
have other means to distribute this. I have seen many different
publications that get built this way and I don't know how they
accomplish this. Are there some open source tools that can do this?

Craig



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