<font size=2 face="sans-serif">Here's a few ideas from Cheryl, our designer.</font>
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<br><tt><font size=1>1. There are online services that take the PDF (which
can be created from<br>
the Quark doc). Most appear to be paid but there is one called YUDU that<br>
has a free option but they also have a paid option ($180 a year) with more<br>
features.<br>
<br>
2. We can create an online page-turning PDF from InDesign. We would have<br>
to convert the Quark file and have the newest version of InDesign (CS5).<br>
Even the newest version of Quark does not have this ability.<br>
<br>
So with either option there would be a link on the Bulletin page going
to<br>
the PDF. This is the simplest, most cost effective way to do this. </font></tt>
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1. From Highly Formatted Print to Web -- Best Solution?<br>
(Shai Gluskin)<br>
2. Re: From Highly Formatted Print to Web -- Best
Solution?<br>
(Fred Jones)<br>
3. Re: From Highly Formatted Print to Web -- Best
Solution? (Ted)<br>
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Message: 1<br>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:06:38 -0400<br>
From: Shai Gluskin <shai@content2zero.com><br>
Subject: [consulting] From Highly Formatted Print to Web -- Best<br>
Solution?<br>
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Hi Folks,<br>
<br>
I've got a client who is going to be serially publishing a book to its
web<br>
site, one page/day. Each day will be its own node.<br>
<br>
The print version is *highly *formatted. A real pain. The text is either
in<br>
pdf or Word, but the fussing I've done so far when pasting into TinyMce<br>
doesn't produce good results.<br>
<br>
Here is my idea that I want feedback on: They should take a screen shot
of<br>
the whole page (the pages are small, like 5in. x 7in.) for each day and<br>
upload the image. In order to get search-engine traffic for those pages,
I<br>
thought they should just copy and paste the text from the pdf into a text<br>
field, losing all the formatting. Using css, I'll make sure the text field<br>
displays off-screen. This way they get the cleanest/easiest data entry
and<br>
best-looking presentation while still allowing search engines to drive<br>
traffic to the page based on the text contents of a field that will be<br>
offscreen.<br>
<br>
Does that make sense?<br>
<br>
Any other ideas?<br>
<br>
Shai<br>
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Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 20:14:19 +0300<br>
From: Fred Jones <fredthejonester@gmail.com><br>
Subject: Re: [consulting] From Highly Formatted Print to Web -- Best<br>
Solution?<br>
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> Does that make sense?<br>
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Google, at least, indexes PDFs.<br>
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Aside from that, it sounds reasonable to me.<br>
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Message: 3<br>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:01:29 -0400<br>
From: Ted <ted-drupalists@webfirst.com><br>
Subject: Re: [consulting] From Highly Formatted Print to Web -- Best<br>
Solution?<br>
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On 4/7/2011 1:06 PM, Shai Gluskin wrote:<br>
> Here is my idea that I want feedback on: They should take a screen
<br>
> shot of the whole page (the pages are small, like 5in. x 7in.) for
<br>
> each day and upload the image. In order to get search-engine traffic
<br>
> for those pages, I thought they should just copy and paste the text
<br>
> from the pdf into a text field, losing all the formatting. Using css,
<br>
> I'll make sure the text field displays off-screen. This way they get
<br>
> the cleanest/easiest data entry and best-looking presentation while
<br>
> still allowing search engines to drive traffic to the page based on
<br>
> the text contents of a field that will be offscreen.<br>
><br>
> Does that make sense?<br>
><br>
> Any other ideas?<br>
><br>
<br>
We've used a pdf-based toolchain to emulate the google docs pdf <br>
quickview function, including "highlighting" and copying text.<br>
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</font></tt><a href=http://pdftoxml.sourceforge.net/><tt><font size=1>http://pdftoxml.sourceforge.net/</font></tt></a><tt><font size=1>
- Gives you the coordinates and <br>
dimensions of each piece of text<br>
pdftoppm - Exports each page to a PNG image (with appropriate arguments)<br>
convert - ImageMagick tools to convert PNGs to indexed format, make <br>
thumbnails, etc.<br>
<br>
You'll most likely want to use some XSLT to cut down the size of the XML
<br>
file from pdftoxml. These tools can be used to automate your idea above
<br>
(with or without support for highlighting/copying the book text).<br>
<br>
Ted<br>
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