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chl0525 · 2003-01-29 4:25 pm

I am working on a price list type catalog. It is 50+ pages. It is in Quark 4.1 and the copy is set with tabs to make colums.

Now I need to take the compleated Quark document and make web pages. One web page for each page in the Quark doc. The dreamweaver template I am to follow is set up with tables making the colums. So I have to copy the info into dreamweaver one cell at a time. This is increadibly tedious!

Is there a better way? There must be a better way and if anyone knows, you guys will. Come on guys, help me come up with a better work flow.

thanks.

Scott · 2003-01-30 4:12 am

Yes, copy & paste.

The last company I worked for we published three magazines (two that were catalogs) and all had to go online. We ended up creating a front end that used quite a bit of javascript to parse as much as possible. But still, about 6 full days each month had about 20 people doing nothing but taking copying and pasting from Quark into a browser.

Right now they are moving toward collecting all data for the ads digitally. When that happens, the copying and pasting will go away, as well as hand entering ads. The magazines and the web site will both draw from a central data source.

There are some plugins that will do it, but they don't output very good code and the biggest problem is the tend to table the data which breaks the relationship.

Sorry I can't offer a better solution. If it's a one time deal, I suggest interns. wink

lostghost · 2003-01-30 9:33 am

One possiblity would be to export all of the text and use BBEdit to search and replace for the proper HTML code.

You could replace tabs with "</td><td>" and replace newlines with "</td></tr><tr><td>". This could get you pretty far along in this way.

Just be sure that you have decent understanding of search and replace techniques and handwriting HTML or you could spend more time screwing around with this than if you just copy and pasted.

Gipetto · 2003-01-30 9:42 am

I know that GoLive 6 can take tab-deliniated text and make a table from it. Does Dreamweaver have a similar function?

If you've got tabs already, that could be a good option. Maybe you can put the tabbed data into filemaker. I know that filemake will make an HTML table from data - I did it not too long ago to post a list of Comic Books (no heckling please - thpt!) and it was a plain old table with text in it.

That could be what you need if you have access to filemaker. Or will Excel do that?

chl0525 · 2003-01-31 8:30 am

Thanks for the advice. I probably should have mentioned in my original post that I am pretty new to the web-design thing. A lot of what you guys said went right over my head.

I am finished anyway. Next year will be different, I am going to move the whole thing into QXP 5 (or later - if it ever comes out).

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#1 2003-01-29 4:25 pm

Easy way to get Quark 4.1 into Dreamweaver?

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