[softwarelist] Converting documents to Quark
- From: William Lack <williamlack@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:58:47 +0100
On 12 Jun, David Pilling <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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).
David Breakwell's !MakeRTF (which runs well uner Aemulor) would make a good
job at converting the styles but would probably ignore the frame information.
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