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I'm extracting the Michael out of myself, Greg. I just can't make up my mind!

There is no way to directly import dreamweaver code into quark express. In quark you make everything from scratch. But really from what I'm reading, all you are interested in is bringing in Hyperlinks not the entire pages. Once you have hyperlinks in quark it's easy to swap them to and from files, either using copy and paste (copy and paste an item that already has a link) or with Edit Hyperlinks-append. If you like using XPress, maybe you can build a file that has all your hyperlinks, it'd be a one time job, because from then on you could Append, or copy paste, etc.

After reading thing's dreamweaver method of building web pages with Photoshop and dreamweaver, I realized I'm not as Dreamweaver challenged as I let on. I do know enough about Dreamweaver to build a site that way. That's how I built this one:

http://mendozaproductions.com/uwphoto/

I'm still liking quark better than that method, that was how I built them before I realized I could do it in quark. Most of the Hardcore Dreamweaver people look down on this as not really being a true dreamweaver page, or not really showing a true command of dreamweaver. That's not a stab at you thing, because I'm working with Dreamweaver at that level, it's stab at me.

Don't worry mate, I wouldn't see anything as a stab at me! Besides, I know I'm quite opinionated here regarding Quark's web abilities. Sorry Quark guys :wink:

Plus, PrintHead, what matters and has been said here, is that you get the end result you want. I could point out problems with it till I'm blue in the face, but if you're happy and the site achieves what you need, what does it matter?

As always, best of luck!

Greg

Perhaps this has been covered, but I couldn't find it. I want to know about importing HTML into Quark: not forms or fancy tables, just formatted text. You see, we want to put together a newsletter using a web interface with tinyMCE and then send it to the printer, who uses Quark. What would be ideal is if I could translate the format tags into quark tags before sending it to the printer: have a PERL script that reads in the HTM, translates the tags for bold, italics, font size, etc into the corresponding Quark tags, then exports it as a text file (or whatever) that the printer could import into Quark.

If that would work (and since I'm clueless about Quark I really don't know if it would) then where can I find a translation table of HTML format tags to Quark format tags?

Thanks!

 

 

joseph4,

If I understand your circumstance correctly, you would like to translate HTML formatting tags into XPress Tags for the purposes of print.  Actually QuarkXPress has an HTML text import filter and should understand/interpret those HTML tags if they are the basic HTML formatting tags (not CSS formatting). 

All you would need to do is import the text/html file into a text box and XPress should correctly interpret and display them.  There are some which won't be honored but they would be immediately apparent.

Hope that helps!

-Drew

so not true it is a major issue! I am a little surprised Quark didn't include it..It feels like an overly cautious move, like lets ee how many will go for using QuarkWeb.. I don't know it seems really dumb.. they got a lot of peoples attention because Quark is such a workhorse & a global thinker..it is hard to fathom how they missed this... not looking for faults.. this one is glaring! People have been nice so far because they all still have other ways to skin the cat.. I think you lost some future market her for sure