Right, well there's a few issues here.
1.
You're asking if there's a way to parse a QXD file so retrieve the text from
it. I doubt this can be done. I had a quick google for it, to no luck. I
also bothered to open up a Quark 3.32 file in my text editor, to check out
the source. It looks pretty complex.
However, there MAY be some light at the end of the tunnel.
a) PHP *IS* able to read and write PDF format. Prerhaps if your newspaper
designers export a PDF of the newspaper (relatively easy). you can pick up
the pieces you need through the PDF, rather than the QXD file.
b) What you're really talking about is using one set of data in multiple
ways (web & print, then maybe email, WAP, PDA, etc). What I'd be aiming to
do is have all the text/content stored in a shared database or easy-to-parse
file format (like XML), so that the writers write to this format, then the
designers copy + paste to Quark, the editors can edit directly in the XML
file or via database GUIs, and people in charge of other content formats
(like web_ can either copy + paste from the central content, or parse it
with a program like PHP.
c) Perhaps your company should look at Adobe InDesign 2 -- I read an article
which briefly discussed it's ability to parse or read from XML files -- so
you could have a simple XML doc:
---
<article>
<id>28</id>
<title>Learning about XML</heading>
<subtitle>I wish I had time to explore this properly!</subtitle>
<author>Justin French</author>
<email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email>
<keywords>XML,Justin,Foo,Bah,PHP</keywords>
<content>
<p class="intro">In this article, I'll attempt to show you some blah
blah.</p>
<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<p>Paragraph 2</p>
<p>Paragraph 3</p>
<p class="footer">This is my footer</p>
</content>
</article>
---
I *think* InDesign 2 can take this data, and with the designer's help,
format it to a "designed" article.
At the very least, you could export some nice clean plain text for the
designer to copy+paste, which is probably what they already do (copy+paste
from Word to Quark.
2. Image files in Quark need to be either TIFF or EPS format. So, what you
need is a way of copying these files, converting them to JPEGs, GIFs or
PNGs, and resizing them to suit the web.
I don't really know if the image functions in PHP can do this... best left
to others.
You *could* batch convert everything to a RGB JPEG using photoshops batch
processing and actions, THEN get PHP or Photoshop to do the resizing etc.
However, "cropping and whatnot" of a file is often something that can ONLY
be done by eye... You may never be able to achieve this with automated
computer programs.
Think about the real issue. Is it "taking stuff from quark and messing with
it", or is it "having a good clean source of data which can be used many
ways"?
Justin French
on 28/02/03 12:24 AM, justin brenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> can anyone give me some good advise on how abouts I should go about
> maintaining a newspaper website.
>
> here is what is currently in place and how i want it to be managed
>
> right now the newspapers are published in a quark file from that file
> pictures have to be placed in photoshop and resized , croped and what not
> and then inserted into a html page, the content i.e text is in this quark
> file as well and is copied and pasted into a html file, what i want to do is
> have the site automated to some extent so i do not have to be doing all this
> copying and pasteing it's a total waste valueable time. what i would like to
> have it some way to have a php script to take this info from the quark file
> and the pictures and have them either transfered to a html page or to a
> database from there i could call from the php script.
>
>
>
> ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS ON A GOOD WAY TO GO ABOUT THIS ... PLEASE CONTACT ME
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> remove the NOSPAM from address
>
>
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