[softwarelist] Re: Converting documents to Quark
- From: Dr Alan Leighton <alan.leighton2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:50:43 +0100
In message <Marcel-1.53-0613192817-1cbZSTv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Anthony Hilton <ajh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In <URL:news:local.opro> on Thu 12 Jun, David Pilling wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Someone has approached me with a book he has done in Impression. His
>> publishers want it in Quark format. The book is structured as lots of
>> frames with text in - there's no large body text that flows through the
>> document, instead each page has four non-linked frames with text in.
>>
>> I wondered if anyone has any suggestions as to how to tackle this
>> problem.
>>
>> I'm considering writing some software to help, if I do that I want to
>> make the software useful for the users of Ovation Pro.
>>
>> I can load the documents into Ovation Pro, the question is what format
>> to save them out in?
>>
>> Approaches I have tried and discarded are - print to PDF, PDF to Word
>> conversion (loses all the style information), save text as DDF, DDF to
>> Word using Techwriter (hard work because there are so many stories).
> I would have expected PDF to be the one which would best preserve layout and
> fonts, and I would expect Quark can import PDF. Why have you rejected that
> option?
> My next thought would be PS - can Quark import PostScript? It may require EPS
> and I don't think we've got a way of generating EPS except via Ghostscript
> and EPS is a single-page format so no help for this document.
> I don't know Impression so the following is purely my thought processes which
> you may already have been through :-)
> From a DDF file is it possible to get the text into a single 'story'?
> Is it possible to save all the text from Impression in a single operation?
> Even if it resulted in multiple files combining them into one would be quite
> simple.
> Is it possible to remove the story end and start tags from a DDF file to make
> a single story?
> Back to the OPro theme - the Save as RTF I have (!MakeRTF from David
> Breakwell I believe) saves all stories into one file. A couple of test
> documents saved as RTF and read into OPro, and Techwriter on RISC OS and then
> Word 2003, Wordpad, and OpenOffice Writer on WinXP all have problems. Only
> OpenOffice Writer gets the layout of a single page letter with 2 stories
> nearly correct. None of them import the whole of the second test file -
> OPro displays all except the last page (2 stories), Techwriter, Wordpad and
> OpenOffice Writer stop at the same point (on page 4 of 18 in the original
> OPro doc) and Word only displays the paragraph which the others fail in the
> middle of, stopping at the same point.
> If you (David) are writing anything for OPro I would appreciate any
> improvement you can make to the Save as RTF option.
> Anthony
Gosh David that would really help,
Alan (happy to donate)
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