Conversions from "DOC" to "HTML"

[Craig White]

Yeah - and it apparently can save in 'docbook' format too.

Craig

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 18:22 -0700, Mike Schwartz wrote:
> > [...] editing XML is crude work.
> 
> ?? - -
> I thought XML was what OOo works on / uses.
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> On 10/11/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>         way too many documents for this methodology...
>         
>         The larger issue though is the framework to convert this to. I
>         am
>         looking at how samba does things and they use 'docbook' which
>         apparently
>         is all XML which is converted by script into html and into pdf
>         formats.
>         This seems like a bunch of extra work and editing XML is crude
>         work.
>         
>         Any other ideas?
>         
>         Craig
>         
>         On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 15:38 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>         > Craig,
>         >
>         >   A very easy way to accomplish the basic functionality is
>         to send 
>         > the .DOC to yourself in Gmail and click 'View As HTML'.  The
>         converter
>         > works fairly well.  It doesn't always handle graphics
>         properly.
>         >
>         > -jmz
>         >
>         > On 10/11/06, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>         >         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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