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***Ok, so how do you do it?
What word processor and native format do you use? Is it based in HTML and converted to PDF and Postscript?
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Ok so we want to move this process to the web ...reports that look great both on the web and on paper SO.....
ONE way, and in my oppinion the BEST way is to simply break from the bad habit of considering authoring and pge-markup as a single process. Write your documents for content in a good editor (Emacs for me :) and then do the markup with a structured markup language such as Lout or LaTeX.
***What are the best tools Today?
from my point of view, the single best tool set for making on-line documents that look great on paper is Emacs+LaTeX+LaTeX2HTML. Your documents are stored in ASCII format, so you don't have to worry about some vendor changing formats on you.
****Are there tools that take a user query and make it fancy both for the screen and for paper?
For example, can the PDF format be created automatically on the fly? ... Always print an intro page then print the results of a data query. Made available as a link for download/view on a Zope page?
There are LaTeX to PDF filters out there that will do this.
*---- Also related: I currently have a number of WordPerfect DOS files to convert to HTML Again, the best - easiest tools to use.
I believe that WP7.0 has an option to publish to HTML, but I'm not certain -- I discovered Emacs shortly after WP5.x :) - -daw - ------------------------------------------------- A computer system without Microsoft products is like a dog without bricks chained to its head. - ------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNrHMKNtGhckXZmDjEQK+7wCdFybHsHORblFRNLEXjVnZtzQGaKsAoPuT 9X2IO8YD2bK1fPYsVrprbi5R =+5+j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----