OT-but related. What's up with Pagemaker.

[tomg]

There are many products to do HTML with. IMO Pagemaker
is overkill. If you can find a copy of  "Adobe Pagemill 3.0 " you'll
be better off. I used a plain text editor for years without any
problems but once I used pagemill there was no going back.

Many Adobe products will install a postscript printer device.
Once you've got this anything that can go to the printer can be
a multiple page .pdf. Something like MS Word can be used to
import the HTML document. You can clean it up...proper size
and alignment etc... and then print it to a PDF file.

For PDF dis-assembly pick up Ghostscript here.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/


If you do a search for Ghostscript or PDF you can find a
lot of utilities.

Tom (BTW test 1,2,3,4  test test 1,2 1,2... 1,2,3,4...;-)



> Y-ellow Y'all.
> Ok I found the thing I'm spoze to make HTML and PDF files with. It's
> called Pagemaker by adobe. But I can't get it to do anything terribly
> useful. Obviouly this is in order to convert old mag articles etc, into
PDF
> and HTML for you delight and delection.
>
> What it does really well is crash. It does this equally well on all the
> machines I tried installing it on. Though with two slightly different
flavors.
>
> On this machine it complains that it can't find it's PDF distiller. I had
> this feeling that it was something separate that I should install so I
> moved on to try and make a HTML file. I set it up to create one. Telling
it
> to lay down all the graphic components in the same  directory etc. Then it
> seems to be ready and so I tell it to start. It then shuts down creates
> some temp files and a *.htm file with zero length. The next time I try to
> call the stupid thing and repeat the process it crashes and burns in
> spectacular fashion taking the whole machine out.
>
> On the other machine it can find it's PDF component and I recall seeing it
> install. However when trying to create a PDF it then tells me it can't do
> it because I don't have a post script printer. And I'm thinking... "Well
> what's that got to do with the price of eggs?" I don't wanna print the
> sucker I just wanna create a PDF. The  same basic thing happens with HTML
> files as it did on the other machine.
>
> The layout part was straight forward. I got an almost identical layout up
> as to the original mag article. But it won't translate that into anything
> useful. If anyone knows this stuff and would like to help me out here I
can
> start plugging away at some of this stuff.
>
> Perhaps there's a better way? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Be absolutely Icebox.
>
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