Re: [newbie] PS, HMTL and Web page design
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 00:42, you wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:49:34 -0400, Andre Dubuc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have produced five booklets of 56 to 100 Postscript pages that I would like to place on a website, with the intent that persons could download them, or view them. The pages are heavily formatted (I used Ventura 4.11 in my Windoze days). I'm a total newbie in Web page design. Prior to embarking on another steep learning curve, I wonder if someone might offer some suggestions as to pitfalls I'm certainly going to encounter. I have a few questions that will expose my woeful ignorance: 1. Is there a program that could convert the PS files to HMTL? (Is this a real newbie question, or what!) All my original document files are in .doc Word for Windows 2.0c and StarOffice doesn't recognize this file format. I've since converted everything to sdw files, except of course, the PS files. At a terminal, type man xxx, where xxx is one of: ps2ascii ps2frag ps2pdfps2pdf13 ps2pk ps2epsi ps2lwxl ps2pdf12 ps2pdfwr ps2ps Most notably, you can convert PS to ASCII (plain text) and PS to PDF (thanks to Free Software, you don't have to pay Adobe $$$ to make PDF files!). Converting PS to ASCII will allow you to import the output into a word processor or HTML editor for editing and embellishment. 2. I've discovered Screem but have yet to use it. Is this a good program to use in creating web-pages? Does it accept PS files? Could you recommend anything better? Screem is good, but it doesn't accept PS files (neither do other editors). You should also try Bluefish and Quanta+. Also, take a look at Amaya (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/). 3. I would like to give people the option to d/l each booklet in either PS (preferrred) or HMTL format. Each booklet runs anywhere from 1.6MB to 2.2MB. Which (or both) would you suggest? Here's what I would do: 1. Use ps2ascii to convert each PS booklet to plain text. 2. Use a word processor or HTML editor to turn the ASCII text into a HTML page. 3. Either use ps2pdf to turn the original PS files into PDFs, or 'print' the HTML pages to PS files (most apps can do this) and then use ps2pdf on those. The latter should ensure that both the HTML and PDF files look the same. 4. Could you suggest some links that would ease me into this project gracefully? Everything I mentioned is included in Mandrake (except Amaya). No other links are necessary :-) Thanks for any help, Andre Thanks for the great info. I was beginning to despair about the project. Btw, Screem freezes on KDE (locks on Creating desktop), and is usable (sort of) only in Gnome. Probably some dependency that is missing. I'll try Bluefish and Quanta+ instead. Thanks again for the thorough information, Regards, Andre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PS, HMTL and Web page design
In reply to Andre's words, written Wed, 19 Sep 2001 07:58:25 -0400 Btw, Screem freezes on KDE (locks on Creating desktop), and is usable (sort of) only in Gnome. Probably some dependency that is missing. I'll try Bluefish and Quanta+ instead. Screem dies on my machine also. Quanta works really nice, so I stick with that. Paul -- Blessed are the Geeks, for they shall internet the earth. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] PS, HMTL and Web page design
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:49:34 -0400, Andre Dubuc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have produced five booklets of 56 to 100 Postscript pages that I would like to place on a website, with the intent that persons could download them, or view them. The pages are heavily formatted (I used Ventura 4.11 in my Windoze days). I'm a total newbie in Web page design. Prior to embarking on another steep learning curve, I wonder if someone might offer some suggestions as to pitfalls I'm certainly going to encounter. I have a few questions that will expose my woeful ignorance: 1. Is there a program that could convert the PS files to HMTL? (Is this a real newbie question, or what!) All my original document files are in .doc Word for Windows 2.0c and StarOffice doesn't recognize this file format. I've since converted everything to sdw files, except of course, the PS files. At a terminal, type man xxx, where xxx is one of: ps2ascii ps2frag ps2pdfps2pdf13 ps2pk ps2epsi ps2lwxl ps2pdf12 ps2pdfwr ps2ps Most notably, you can convert PS to ASCII (plain text) and PS to PDF (thanks to Free Software, you don't have to pay Adobe $$$ to make PDF files!). Converting PS to ASCII will allow you to import the output into a word processor or HTML editor for editing and embellishment. 2. I've discovered Screem but have yet to use it. Is this a good program to use in creating web-pages? Does it accept PS files? Could you recommend anything better? Screem is good, but it doesn't accept PS files (neither do other editors). You should also try Bluefish and Quanta+. Also, take a look at Amaya (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/). 3. I would like to give people the option to d/l each booklet in either PS (preferrred) or HMTL format. Each booklet runs anywhere from 1.6MB to 2.2MB. Which (or both) would you suggest? Here's what I would do: 1. Use ps2ascii to convert each PS booklet to plain text. 2. Use a word processor or HTML editor to turn the ASCII text into a HTML page. 3. Either use ps2pdf to turn the original PS files into PDFs, or 'print' the HTML pages to PS files (most apps can do this) and then use ps2pdf on those. The latter should ensure that both the HTML and PDF files look the same. 4. Could you suggest some links that would ease me into this project gracefully? Everything I mentioned is included in Mandrake (except Amaya). No other links are necessary :-) Thanks for any help, Andre -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
