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I am having trouble converting a Quark 7.5 document to html. When I duplicate the layout and change "print" to "web", it doesn't work. And when I try to export, the "HTML" box is grayed out.

Hi, Regina,

can you please elaborate what "doesn't work" means? Crashes? Popup grayed out? Reverts back to Print? Other unexpected result?

Thanks
Mathias

Mathias, It just remains a Quark file with no .html extension.

Hi, Regina,

you need to export it as HTML (like you need to export a print layout as PDF).

Go via "File > Export > HTML" after you converted it to a web layout and added hyperlinks and other stuff your customers expect on your website.

Thanks
Matthias

Yes, but that's where the "html" option is grayed out.

Hi, Regina,

when you are in a web layout, then HTML is not grayed out. Are you sure you have not selected the print or interactive layout (there are tabs you select)? 

If yes, instead of "duplicate" choose the "layout properties" and switch print to web (lease do that with a copy of your file so that you do not loose the  original. Still grayed out?

Thanks
Matthias

OK, it's converting to .htm now but when I post it online, nothing shows up except the colored background and a few lines of text, with placeholders where the photos should be. If I open it in browser it looks fine.

Hi, Regina,

when you export, create a folder first, e.g. "my exports" on your Desktop, and export into this. You will notice, that HTML Export creates more than just file (the nature of HTML), e.g. a folder called "pictures" with pictures in it etc.

You need to upload the whole stuff without changing their relative position to each other. So if you have a file called "index.htm" and a folder "pictures" in your folder "my exports", then upload both (with all contents of the folder) to the same folder of your webserver.

Best
Matthias

Thank you!

My question is a bit different. As a magazine publisher I want to use the text from a Quark file (8) on a web page. At the moment we go through an elaborate process to eliminate the formatting in order to get rid of any items where we have used the alt key which would otherwise make blobs appear on the web page's text, but this also removes all the paragraph breaks. I don't want to make the whole document into an html file. What would you suggest?

Hi, wallaby,

I am not sure I understand what you need.

Do you need plain text out of QuarkXPress and keep the soft or hard returns?

Thanks
Matthias

Hi Matthias

 Currently we copy the text out of all the text boxes in a single article and paste it into a blank Word document then save it as a Rich Text File, which removes all formatting, we reopen that in Text Edit and past the contents into 4D which is the database used for posting articles to the website. By hard returns do you mean the paragraph breaks? That is what we currently lose - we get rid of all the accents and other symbols that have been created using the alt key but we also lose the paragraph breaks. I have tried manually removing all accents etc within the Word document and re-inputting the paragraph breaks then copying and pasting direct into 4D (bypassing the Rich Text Format) but the breaks are still removed.I don't know if this is a problem specific to 4D or is due to the different language used by Quark. We are in the process of redesigning our website and will be using WordPress in future and I am trying to establish a foolproof way of pasting/extracting the text complete with paragraph breaks.

 Thanks!

 Wallaby

 Apologies; further to my last posting, the Word document saved as a text only file, not Rich Text.

Hi, Wallaby,

I assume you are on OS X, right?

I just tried this manually, copy and paste text out of QuarkXPress and pasted in Word 2008 (12.2.1) and saved as Plain Text. The resulting file contains hard breaks (paragraph breaks).

So it might be a 4D issue. Have you tried saving directly out of QuarkXPress (File > Save Text) and/or experimenting with different text encodings (Mac Roman, Unicode, Windows Latin)?

Regards
Matthias