- From: The Snider's Web <lsnider@thesnidersweb.com>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 12:56:08 -0400
- To: Matthew Smith <matt@kbc.net.au>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi Matthew, Thanks for your email. I would love a Word doc right now (you can use Dreamweaver to clean up the HTML mess-which is handy :), I only have a PageMaker document which makes things a bit more complex-but not by much! Thanks for the leads on the software like Tex, time to do more research. Yes in this case I have the original doc (in PageMaker) and I now have a non-corrupted version of PageMaker so life is good! Lots of ways to go, huh? Thanks again Lisa At 08:12 AM 1/17/2003 +1030, Matthew Smith wrote: >Hi Lisa/All > >>I am thinking of putting up either a simple HTML page or a text file as >>an alternative to the PDF. > >Following a similar enquiry that I made not long ago, I have decided to go >the dual-format route. For those who want good hard copy and for whom >accessibility isn't an issue, I prepare a PDF version; in addition to >this, I prepare an accessible, XHTML 1.0 compliant Web version. > >I still haven't finalised a solution to produce the two documents because, >in many cases where I am required to do this, the original document was >passed to me as Microsoft Word. > >I convert the Word to PDF by firstly changing to standard fonts (makes it >easier for my software), then printing it to file as PostScript and then >using the ps2pdf utility (part of GhostScript) to convert to PDF. The >XHTML is a simple cut-and-paste into a text editor, where I add all the >markup by hand. I use Amaya to check the XHTML for errors. > >This is a bit of a long-winded process - one thought is to get the source >into Tex, which can convert to both PDF and HTML directly. The only >problem is that very few of these older tools seem to generate decent markup. > >For your case, can you grab the source before it gets turned to PDF? I >would imagine that it started off life as Word (or something) which then >gets "printed" to PDF. Rather than try to make a second (PDF to HTML) >conversion on the same data, I would try to back-track and convert from >the original source. > >Converting to plain text from the original source would probably be the >easiest answer, but using a markup language ([X]HTML) would probably make >the document easier to understand if it is being read by a screen reader >or talking browser. > >Hope this helps. > >Cheers > >M > >-- >Matthew Smith >IT Consultant - KBC, South Australia
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