Re: [WSG] Making PDF and Word files accessible

2005-06-04 Thread Zulema
Hope Stewart wrote: Hi Angela, I see that your email was sent using Apple Mail. Assuming you are also using Dreamweaver on a Mac, you can try what I do: cut & paste the Word doc into AppleWorks. Then either save the AppleWorks doc as html or cut & paste from AppleWorks into Dreamweaver. AppleWor

Re: [WSG] Making PDF and Word files accessible

2005-06-04 Thread Hope Stewart
Hi Angela, On 3/6/05 8:36 PM, "Angela Galvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Secondly, with the Word documents, if there is an easier way to convert > them to HTML? At the moment I am saving as HTML from Word, taking them > into Dreamweaver and using 'Clean up Word HTML'. After that I use 'Find > a

Re: [WSG] Making PDF and Word files accessible

2005-06-04 Thread Anders Nawroth
I have good experience with Tidy: http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ /Anders George S. Williams skrev: On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 06:36, Angela Galvin wrote: Secondly, with the Word documents, if there is an easier way to convert them to HTML? I use an open source program, antiword, to conve

Re: [WSG] Making PDF and Word files accessible

2005-06-03 Thread heretic
Hi there, > My first question is that if I convert the PDF files to HTML to make > them more accessible, am I right in thinking that this is only half my > job done? If the original file wasn't marked up correctly in the first > place before being saved as PDF (with headings, etc) does this mean >

RE: [WSG] Making PDF and Word files accessible

2005-06-03 Thread Jona Decker
Mary Krieger wrote: >> If you copy and paste the text into the 'content' part of your standard page, the line breaks will show you where the paragraph and headings are. I'm using Homesite so I just select and repeat the similar code ( first p, then h1, h2 etc) from one end of the document to the

Re: [WSG] Making PDF and Word files accessible

2005-06-03 Thread George S. Williams
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 06:36, Angela Galvin wrote: > > Secondly, with the Word documents, if there is an easier way to convert > them to HTML? I use an open source program, antiword, to convert the Word docs to text and then just add the necessary markup. (And, of course, edit out the Word weir

Re: [WSG] Making PDF and Word files accessible

2005-06-03 Thread designer
Angela Galvin wrote: Hello all, I have the task of adding a bunch of PDF and Word files to a web site I work on, that currently conforms to WAI Priority 1 guidelines. My first question is that if I convert the PDF files to HTML to make them more accessible, am I right in thinking that this i

Re: [WSG] Making PDF and Word files accessible

2005-06-03 Thread Mary Krieger
At 05:36 AM 6/3/2005, you wrote: snip Secondly, with the Word documents, if there is an easier way to convert them to HTML? At the moment I am saving as HTML from Word, taking them into Dreamweaver and using 'Clean up Word HTML'. After that I use 'Find and replace' to strip out all , and attri