Has anyone been able to process bold and italic to the now current <strong> and <em> or indeed able to create a <span> automatically. I have worked around the <span> by using new paragraph tags, but it is not really satisfactory. Do the character tags allow you to process them into <span> tags?
I am trying to avoid bloated html code and have done quite well with simpler documents. Now I want to get complicated and I am a little stumped.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Stilman
Hello Stilman Davis; It may help to say which ver. of Corel and Windows and what you are going to use the html for.
George
George,
I am using Corel Ventura version 10, as Bob surmised, on Windows 7.
Ventura publishes to html. However, development needs to be undertaken to bring the export up to web standards. I hope Corel will do so, as Ventura is the best of the DTPs, even now.
In Ventura there are a number of ways to create special formatting, one of which is the character tag. I am wondering how to get the "export to html" to create the <span> tags for these character tags.
Regards,Stilman Davis
Hello Stilman; Bob's eye's are better than mine, Or he pays more attention. I'm sure you know Corel let Ventura die, but you could down load the trial ver. of CorelDraw Suite X7 to see if it will let you do what you need. You'll have 30 days to export what you have done. And If there is anything I can do for you let me know.
George ( george@vasigns.net )
Stilman Davis said:Ventura publishes to html
Get yourself an html editor. Although Draw suite (which I love and use daily for creating web assets <pieces>) has that feature, it stinks. Without even knowing Ventura but considering how old it is I will say again get an html editor. This auto stuff creates loads of issues and monkey code.
There are so many cool things you can do on the web now but you need and html editor. The web is 90% of my business and I have hundreds of sites on line and many web servers running.
Will Corel Draw Suite X7 create 500 page publications easily? That is what Ventura does with a minumum of effort once the stylesheet is created.
I would use Draw for the creation of eps, tiff, etc, since it is a drawing program, not a book publishing program. These creations would then be imported into the Ventura publication.
Similarly, a text editor (MSWord, WordPerfect as examples) would be used to set out the text.
Ventura would be used to assemble all the elements, format them, and publish it all to various media -- pdf for paper print, pdf for electronic disemination, html for web browsing. This can be done automatically and reasonably cleanly.
I regularly use TopStyle as my html editor. Very good to use.
I agree that Draw is not the best way to create html, but certainly the best for creating images.
Although Ventura is old, it was very far ahead of the game, and even now, I believe, still is among the front runners.
It is a shame Corel never understood Ventura and "let it die". I will continue to use it because it can do everything I need to do, even without updates, but it would be far ahead if it were still in Corel's development programme.
Hello Again Stilman Davis; I would Not make a 500 page doc. in CorelDraw. ( Not even half that.) Corel has come out with a lot of raster programs that key on different things, but they let Ventura fall by the wayside maybe because most people were Trying to use MS Word? I use Lotus Word ( Which I have to run in XP mode because Lotus was bought out and left to die.) Lotus had a program that had Lotus 123, Approach and Lotus Word Pro. The Approach is the BEST data base & form gen. I've ever seen, there's Nothing even close to it. So I guess for some of us computing is not always moving forward. ( DARN )