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
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.
Regards,Stilman Davis
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 )
George
Hello, George,
Corel has had world-beaters, but the company seems to lose the plot. I have used WordPerfect and Draw (now on X6) as preparatory processes for publications, but Ventura has been my bread winner. (Still going strong.)
Like you I have used the Lotus products, though for a database Paradox was great, though now I am using mysql for the limited database work I do.
AmiPro was a great WP.
Every program works in its own way depending on what we need to do with it. We have to use the one best suited for the output. That is why I am sticking with Ventura for long publications, using Framemaker and InDesign for some work.
Regards,Stilman