[consulting] From Highly Formatted Print to Web -- Best Solution?

Sat Apr 9 13:31:57 UTC 2011

check my module
http://drupal.org/project/fileviewer

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:19 PM,  <Daniel at snakehill.net> wrote:
> Here's a few ideas from Cheryl, our designer.
>
> 1. There are online services that take the PDF (which can be created from
> the Quark doc). Most appear to be paid but there is one called YUDU that
> has a free option but they also have a paid option ($180 a year) with more
> features.
>
> 2. We can create an online page-turning PDF from InDesign. We would have
> to convert the Quark file and have the newest version of InDesign (CS5).
> Even the newest version of Quark does not have this ability.
>
> So with either option there would be a link on the Bulletin page going to
> the PDF. This is the simplest, most cost effective way to do this.
>
> Dan
>
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>   1. From Highly Formatted Print to Web -- Best Solution?
>      (Shai Gluskin)
>   2. Re: From Highly Formatted Print to Web -- Best
> Solution?
>      (Fred Jones)
>   3. Re: From Highly Formatted Print to Web -- Best
> Solution? (Ted)
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> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:06:38 -0400
> From: Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com>
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> Hi Folks,
>
> I've got a client who is going to be serially publishing a book to its web
> site, one page/day. Each day will be its own node.
>
> The print version is *highly *formatted. A real pain. The text is either in
> pdf or Word, but the fussing I've done so far when pasting into TinyMce
> doesn't produce good results.
>
> Here is my idea that I want feedback on: They should take a screen shot of
> the whole page (the pages are small, like 5in. x 7in.) for each day and
> upload the image. In order to get search-engine traffic for those pages, I
> thought they should just copy and paste the text from the pdf into a text
> field, losing all the formatting. Using css, I'll make sure the text field
> displays off-screen. This way they get the cleanest/easiest data entry and
> best-looking presentation while still allowing search engines to drive
> traffic to the page based on the text contents of a field that will be
> offscreen.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Shai
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> From: Fred Jones <fredthejonester at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [consulting] From Highly Formatted Print to Web -- Best
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>> Does that make sense?
>
> Google, at least, indexes PDFs.
>
> Aside from that, it sounds reasonable to me.
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> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:01:29 -0400
> From: Ted <ted-drupalists at webfirst.com>
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> On 4/7/2011 1:06 PM, Shai Gluskin wrote:
>> Here is my idea that I want feedback on: They should take a screen
>> shot of the whole page (the pages are small, like 5in. x 7in.) for
>> each day and upload the image. In order to get search-engine traffic
>> for those pages, I thought they should just copy and paste the text
>> from the pdf into a text field, losing all the formatting. Using css,
>> I'll make sure the text field displays off-screen. This way they get
>> the cleanest/easiest data entry and best-looking presentation while
>> still allowing search engines to drive traffic to the page based on
>> the text contents of a field that will be offscreen.
>>
>> Does that make sense?
>>
>> Any other ideas?
>>
>
> We've used a pdf-based toolchain to emulate the google docs pdf
> quickview function, including "highlighting" and copying text.
>
> http://pdftoxml.sourceforge.net/ - Gives you the coordinates and
> dimensions of each piece of text
> pdftoppm - Exports each page to a PNG image (with appropriate arguments)
> convert - ImageMagick tools to convert PNGs to indexed format, make
> thumbnails, etc.
>
> You'll most likely want to use some XSLT to cut down the size of the XML
> file from pdftoxml. These tools can be used to automate your idea above
> (with or without support for highlighting/copying the book text).
>
> Ted
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