On 21 Aug 98, Rolf Kraiker wrote:
> One of the things I'd like to tackle soon is
> establishing a process to make publishing documents a fairly painless
> process for my users. The standard word processor for the institution is
> MSWord. All the computers are linked on a Novell network and the web
> server will be a UNIX or Linux box.
I'm involved in something similar at the moment, evaluating
intranet publishing solutions for a government client. The approaches I'm
looking at run the gamut from (at the low end) simply ensuring that
everyone has a copy of the appropriate WP>HTML conversion utility
installed, to dedicated server-side conversion and posting applications.
The solution I like best is called Transit Central from InfoAccess Ltd, the
people who make the HTML Transit conversion application. It
automatically converts documents from many native formats (including
Excel and PowerPoint) as per a pre-defined template, and then uploads
new or amended pages to the appropriate site directories as needed.
However, this is costly -- $3,995 for a one-server license -- and likely
overkill for my client's fairly small volume of documents to be published
each month.
What I'll probably go with is a Javascript approach, installing an HTML
conversion script that users will access through a form; they would
upload MS Word documents via the form to the appropriate directory, and
the script will do the necessary HTML formatting (i.e., stripping out Word
formatting and replacing it with corresponding HTML codes, then plugging
it into a template.) The sysadmin will likely have to do a little manual
clean-up before the new files are actually posted, but nothing too onerous.
(This is going on an NT server BTW, which is why I'm using JS rather than
Perl.)
For more info on Transit Central:
http://www.infoaccess.com/intranet/intranet.htm
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