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Jay DeWitt

Greetings

I am new to FrontPage, but I am picking up on design rather quickly. I am a Publisher of a trade publication and want to get my articles and press releases on the Web with each new issue. I edit all editorial in Microsoft Word and apply a template to it, which is subsequently imported into Adobe InDesign where a script is applied to it in order for it to be in the format of our publication

My questions are these

1. Is there an easy way to get this information into FrontPage without having to make many changes to the Word Document
2. Can I create a Dynamic Web Template and simply go to the Word Document and apply the DWT to it

Any pointers would be great

Thanks much!
 
S

Stefan B Rusynko

The FP DWT only works on html files w/ a FP web/site (not on MS W .doc files in MSW)

You could use MSW / MS FP automation (VBA) to open the FP site, and the MS Word docs and "import" the new content into a DWT
controlled page in the FP Site, then publish the site to your host server running the FP SE.

Note that MS Word formatting is print based and not web based, so some features of your doc may not "translate" correctly.

To avoid "translation" difficulties, since MS W 2003 supports smart tags and XML, you could also modify your MS W templates to
generate XML w/ smart tags which could then be opened in FP 2003
For a start on the capabilities see
http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/offic...ry/en-us/dno2k3ta/html/odc_off03devtechov.asp
and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/un...-us/odc_fp2003_ta/html/odc_fpwhatsnewo2k3.asp

The entire process can be streamlined if you have Visual Studio .Net and the Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/vsto/



| Greetings.
|
| I am new to FrontPage, but I am picking up on design rather quickly. I am a Publisher of a trade publication and want to get my
articles and press releases on the Web with each new issue. I edit all editorial in Microsoft Word and apply a template to it, which
is subsequently imported into Adobe InDesign where a script is applied to it in order for it to be in the format of our publication.
|
| My questions are these:
|
| 1. Is there an easy way to get this information into FrontPage without having to make many changes to the Word Document?
| 2. Can I create a Dynamic Web Template and simply go to the Word Document and apply the DWT to it?
|
| Any pointers would be great.
|
| Thanks much!
 
S

Stefan B Rusynko

PS
If the "look" of your trade publication is important for all users, a low cost / fast approach is to generate a PDF file from MS W
and File Import the .pdf file into the FP Site
You can use Adobe Acrobat or lower cost pdf generators like Win2PDF



| The FP DWT only works on html files w/ a FP web/site (not on MS W .doc files in MSW)
|
| You could use MSW / MS FP automation (VBA) to open the FP site, and the MS Word docs and "import" the new content into a DWT
| controlled page in the FP Site, then publish the site to your host server running the FP SE.
|
| Note that MS Word formatting is print based and not web based, so some features of your doc may not "translate" correctly.
|
| To avoid "translation" difficulties, since MS W 2003 supports smart tags and XML, you could also modify your MS W templates to
| generate XML w/ smart tags which could then be opened in FP 2003
| For a start on the capabilities see
| http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/offic...ry/en-us/dno2k3ta/html/odc_off03devtechov.asp
| and
|
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/un...-us/odc_fp2003_ta/html/odc_fpwhatsnewo2k3.asp
|
| The entire process can be streamlined if you have Visual Studio .Net and the Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System
| See http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/vsto/
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|
| | Greetings.
| |
| | I am new to FrontPage, but I am picking up on design rather quickly. I am a Publisher of a trade publication and want to get my
| articles and press releases on the Web with each new issue. I edit all editorial in Microsoft Word and apply a template to it,
which
| is subsequently imported into Adobe InDesign where a script is applied to it in order for it to be in the format of our
publication.
| |
| | My questions are these:
| |
| | 1. Is there an easy way to get this information into FrontPage without having to make many changes to the Word Document?
| | 2. Can I create a Dynamic Web Template and simply go to the Word Document and apply the DWT to it?
| |
| | Any pointers would be great.
| |
| | Thanks much!
|
|
 
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