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From: "Dan Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: 03 August 2006 11:51
Subject: Re: [users] can I turn HTML into OO files?
On Thursday 03 August 2006 05:28 am, Harold Fuchs wrote:
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From: "Gary Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 9:32 PM
Subject: [users] can I turn HTML into OO files?
> People,
>
> I have nearly 80 HTML files that I would like to put together
> or edit with OOo-2. I think I can go from openoffice -> markup,
> but don't know about the other way. I'masking before trying
> because I have tried (with 1.1.5) to edit *.txt files with
> simple HTML commands and OO did not like it!
>
> thanks!
>
> gary kline
>
> --
> Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public
> service Unix
I think it may depend on what you want to end up with. If the HTML
files are mainly text based and you want to end up with text style
documents then simply select/copy the text from your browser and
paste it into an OO document. You can also embed graphics in your
OO document via copy/paste (see also the thread about positioning
graphics in OO Writer - read up about Anchors)..
You could also use "Open With" (on Windows, anyway) to open the
HTML directly with OO. This is fine for text based documents but OO
doesn't seem to do a particularly good job with embedded graphics.
There is no direct way to Save As a normal OO document but you
could Export as PDF.
If you want an HTML editor - you want to end up with HTML documents
- then I can recommend Arachnophilia which is free from
http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/ I've used it on Windows
but, as it's Java based, I think it will run on many different
platforms. You can also tell it which browser(s) you like and it
will behave appropriately. Dealing with the author, for support
perhaps, is best described as interesting, but the software does
seem to do what it says on the tin. Make *very* sure you have the
latest version before claiming you've found a bug. Make *very* sure
you've read the FAQs before asking a question.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
Furthermore, if you have a *.txt file that you want to make into
a HTML file, use Save As and select HTML Document(OpenOffice.org
Writer) (.html) as the File type. OOo will add the necessary HTML
commands. This even works in version 1.1.5.
The HTML code might not be as clean as it could be, but OOo does
an adequate job of it.
Dan
The HTML code is also very dated being HTML 3.? instead of the widely used
HTML 4.01 Transitional. If have only tried it once and ended up with a major
rewrite to get it to conform to the HTML standard.
Ron Ferguson
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