Convert Microsoft Publisher to Web Page

[AndesHelp]

I have a website for an Evangelist/Book Writer. He publishes newsletters throughout the year, dealing with Israel and the Mid-East.

He provides his newsletters to me in Microsoft Publisher format. It normally takes me anywhere from 4 to 6 hours to convert each newsletter to the website HTML. They have graphics and special characters.

The converted newsletters can be viewed at:

http://www.fredshmidt.org/newsletter/junb2007.htm

I tried the Save As HTML. That dumps the graphics and special characters. Is there a tool which would make this a little easier to accomplish?

Thanks

[PayneLess Designs]

Sorry. I overlooked your post somehow. Have you tried looking at the following info:

How to Convert a Microsoft Publisher File to a Web Page
How to Convert a Microsoft Publisher File to a Web Page (video)
How to convert a Microsoft Publisher newsletter to a webpage (PDF)

I doubt if you can get the files made in something other than a Microsoft product? Maybe a Visual HTML editor that generates HTML code and will probably be easier to clean up. Even Word has a filter:
Office 2000 HTML Filter 2.0 and HOW TO: Use the HTML Filter in Word 2000

Didn't come across an HTML filter for Publisher, but you might familiarize yourself with the Word filter and try it with a Publisher file.

[AndesHelp]

Unfortunately, the Convert to a web page is not very clean for Microsoft Publisher 2007. If I were to do an entire website in Publisher and then convert that to a website, it might work OK. It's almost like Microsoft tried to merge Publisher and FrontPage.

Here is the link to the Web Page created with Publisher 2007 Tools.

http://fredshmidt.org/newsletter/Public ... age304.htm

Here is the same web page I manually converted:

http://www.fredshmidt.org/newsletter/oct2008.htm

I was just hoping and dreaming for an easier alternative.

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[PayneLess Designs]

The easiest alternative I've found is NEVER to use any Microsoft product to make anything I will have to use as a web page. I was really hoping the Word 2000 HTML filter would work, but guess the 2007 uses different Microsoft Schema which is used to "talk" to other M$ products.

Your page is using a "XHTML 1.0 Transitional" DocType, but you are not coding to this DocType. It is a very strict coding and does not allow deprecated tags like <font> tags to be used. You did a good job, but you might want to correct the following code errors:

CSS Errors Just 1.
HTML Errors 133 errors

Word 2007 has two ways to save a file as HTML. One is a filtered version. Don't know if Publisher 2007 has this same option.

[AndesHelp]

You're right about not using Microsoft products to create what I will be using on a web site. However, that Evangelist was taught to use MS Publisher many years ago and just will not use anything else.

That website is one I have been working on to update and fix my coding errors. I have set the foundation for it and corrected the home page. That page will now validate:

http://fredshmidt.org/

Now, I just have to carry those corrections through the other web pages.

Thanks for your help.

[PayneLess Designs]

Yeh, I'm stuck in my ways on many things, too. You're welcome and good luck.