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PostScript
- p2h for Unix (linux, sunos) in alpha stage: needs ghostscript.
Contact: ritzert@dfg.d400.de (Michael Ritzert)
- ps2html.
Needs a PostScript interpreter such as GhostScript.
Contact: jerryw@convex.com, guru@stasi.bradley.edu (Jerry Whelan).
- PS2HTML
Contacts: agostini@server.area.fi.cnr.it (Alessandro Agostini), ced@server.area.fi.cnr.it (Stefano Cerreti)
- and see webify
- Filtrix from Blueberry Software for Windows and UNIX converts bidirectionally among FrameMaker, HTML, Word, Interleaf, WordPerfect and other formats. Supports styles, tables, graphics.
- WordPort from Advanced Computer
Innovations Inc for DOS and Windows provides conversion between many word
processor formats, as well as conversion into HTML.
- WebConvert for Windows 95/NT from
Lightspeed Software converts popular word processor files to/from HTML one file at a
time or in batch mode.
- KEYpak from ANE Resources Inc. offers conversions into HTML and between a wide variety of source
formats. Runs on Windows, UNIX , OpenVMS, OS390.
- The Outside In OEM product range from Inso is a filtering technology that understands the
file formats of many word processor, spreadsheet, database, bitmap, drawing, and
presentation formats. It offers template-driven HTML export for Win32 and Unix platforms.
- StarOffice from Star Division
is an office package for Windows, Unix etc. It
can export (convert) to HTML all the formats it can import including
MS-Word and rtf. It can operate across the net using ftp or
HTTP GET and PUT. Non-English versions available.
- Cyberleaf from Interleaf
(for Unix, and real soon now for Windows NT). Converts Interleaf, FrameMaker, Microsoft Word RTF, WordPerfect and ASCII
formats. It also converts graphics to GIF or PostScript.
- HTML Transit from
InfoAccess (for Windows). Offers direct translation of
Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, WordPro (AmiPro), FrameMaker and Interleaf formats.
as well as ASCII text and RTF. Supports the major graphics formats.
- Web Publisher from SkiSoft
(for Windows 3.1 and later) will convert RTF and MIF formats.
- KeyView for Windows allows conversion of a wide range of formats.
Contact: mrobbins@verity.com (Marlene Robbins)
See also products handling multiple word processor formats
- rtftohtml
produces HTML from documents containing graphics, tables, text and
equations. Runs on UNIX, Macintosh, DOS/Windows etc.
Based on the RTF tools of P.Dubois at Wisconsin.
Contact: chris@sunpack.com (Chris Hector)
- rtfdtohtml
can convert both RTF and RTFD files created on NeXTSTEP or
OPENSTEP systems. Based on (and requires) rtftohtml.
Should run on almost any UNIX-like system.
Contact: feludwig@informatik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Elmar Ludwig)
- rtf2html
(more limited) Contact: cshotton@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Chuck Shotton)
- MARTHA is a small freeware converter for DOS. (Documentation also in French - en français).
Contact: Sagnier_Yves@cena.dgac.fr (Yves Sagnier)
- Scrooge from BetaSoft
(Web site also in German - auch auf Deutsch) is a shareware RTF to HTML converter
component. Sample application Scrooge Converter included. Contact: betasoft@kagi.com (Michael Justin)
- WEB*LITE from Virtual Media Technology
is an RTF to HTML converter for Windows with many advanced features.
- LatinByrd
for NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP converts RTF, RTFD or plain ASCII documents or document trees.
Converts single TIFF and EPS images to GIF and JPEG format.
Available in English, French, and German. Contact: stefan@ping.at (Stefan Schneider)
- TagPerfect is an RTF to SGML
(i.e. HTML, HTML0, HTML1, HTML2, HTML3...) convertor. Will convert and parse
existing RTF documents. Contact: 100043,3201@compuserve.com (Eric van Herwijnen)
- E-Publish from Stat Tech allows
creation of HTML documents from Winword or RTF source files.
- The RTFact RTF to HTML converter from Iconovex
is bundled with their AnchorPage system or available separately.
- See also Rainbow below
- word2x will convert Word for Windows binary .doc
(not RTF) files to HTML (and also LaTeX). Contact: word2x@duncan.telstar.net (Duncan Simpson)
- TextToHTML for the Mac from Logic n.v. handles rtf as well as plain text.
(Your browser needs frames to access their site). Contact: kris@logic.be (Kris Coppieters)
- mswtohtml is a simple application written in AppleScript for the Macintosh, which
converts Microsoft Word 6.0 files to HTML. Contact: DanielB20@aol.com (Dan Berrios)
- See also the information on add-ons for HoTMetal.
- HTML-HyperEditor
can read RTF files. Contact: loa@syo.lu.se (Lars-Olof Albertson).
-
KatalogMaster (also in German - auch auf Deutsch) for Windows has facilities for
importing RTF documents.
In addition, the following allow MS Word to be used as an HTML editor or converter.
- Ed's HTML Converter 97 is a converter for Microsoft Word 97 which handles endnotes and tables. Contact: ebirming@culaw.creighton.edu (Eddie Birmingham)
- WordToWeb from Solutionsoft
is an add-in for Word 95 or 97 on Windows 95 or NT. Can create fully formatted
linked HTML publications.
- ANT_HTML is a
Word template that converts documents to and from HTML
in a WYSIWYG environment, and Crackerjack is a
Word template HTML editor. They work in Word for Windows, Word
for Mac, NT & WIN 95 in International versions of Word
6.0 and above. Contact: jswift@telacommunications.com (Jill Swift)
- WebAuthor
HTML add-in to Word for Windows 6.0 from Quarterdeck
-
Internet Assistant for Word 6.0 for Windows from Microsoft.
- EasyHTML
from Eon Solutions for all versions of Word for Windows lets users make HTML pages from Word documents. EasyHelp/Web is a dual
development tool that creates both HTML pages and WinHelp files.
- RTFTOHTM WinWord template and conversion tools.
Contact: Jorma.Hartikka@csc.fi
- CU_HTML.DOT is a Word for Windows 2.0 and 6.0 document template that
allows users to create HTML documents inside Word in a WYSIWYG manner and
generate a corresponding HTML file. Contact: anton-lam@cuhk.hk
- GT_HTML.DOT
is an alpha release by Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI)
of a set of Microsoft Word macros to
facilitate HTML document authoring. The macros are contained in a
document template which provides a pseudo WYSIWYG
authoring environment. Now runs on Mac too. Contact: gt_html@gatch.edu
(Jeffrey L.Grover, John H.Davis III, Bob Johnston)
-
HTML Author is a Word for Windows template with macros. It
supports non-English versions of Word. It is also starting to
have some HTML3 features. Simple tables are supported in the current version.
Contact: G.S.Cooper@iti.salford.ac.uk
- HTML Convertor is a Word for Windows 6 program
that converts any text file it can read into a complete and accurate HTML file.
Contact: ben@hyppe.netkonect.co.uk (Ben Thompson)
- 2 Html from Group Cortex is a shareware macro
for Word 6.0 for Macintosh. Converts headers, lists, tables etc. Will convert a directory.
Contact: mcrae@cortex.net
- Another set of shareware Word 6.0 / Word 97 document templates and macros
can be found here.
Contact: alaser@iwaynet.net (Alan J. Laser)
- TagWizard makes Word 6.0 into an interactive SGML and HTML editor.
Contact: 100043,3201@compuserve.com (Eric van Herwijnen)
- tbl2html
will convert a table in Word format to HTML. Contact: john.f.dirkman@nps.usace.army.mil
(John Dirkman).
- Another tbl2html is a WinWord 6.0 Table to Html converter.
Contact: yura@kpmgk.kiev.ua (Yuri M. Lesiuk)
See also products handling multiple word processor formats
- A set of WordPerfect macros to convert from
WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. Contact: dja@soton.ac.uk (David Adams)
- WPTOHTML WordPerfect macros:
wpt51d10.zip for WordPerfect 5.1 and wpt60d10.zip for WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS.
Contact: hmonroe@us.net (Hunter Monroe)
- wp2x
converts WP 5.1 to many things, including HTML 1.0. Runs only under Unix.
Contact: mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca (Michael Richardson)
- wpmacro
(word perfect 5.1 macro, now largely superseded by WPTOHTML) Contact: steeve@stoner.eps.mcgill.ca (Steeve McCauley)
- Wp2Html converts WordPerfect
documents to HTML (includes tables, equations, figures etc.)
Evaluation copy for DOS, runs on many UNIX flavours too.
Contact: andy.scriven@research.natpower.co.uk (Andrew Scriven)
- WPAHTML for Windows
converts Wordperfect 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2 documents to HTML 2.0 and higher.
Also in Spanish (en español).
Contact: jcrodriguez@dis.ulpgc.es (Juan Carlos Rodriguez).
- Internet Publisher from Corel is an
add-on to WordPerfect 6.1 available
via ftp (also Internet Publisher Pro). See also
Corel and the Internet
- See also the information on add-ons for HoTMetal.
See also products handling multiple word processor formats
- Webmaker, originally
developed at CERN and now available from Harlequin
is a web publishing solution for the creation of
full-featured web pages from FrameMaker documents.
Contact: kmc@harlequin.com (Keith M. Corbett), webmaker@cern.ch (Bertrand Rousseau et al.)
- Frame2html.
See release note for version 0.8.9
Contact: jons@nta.no (Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner)
- fmtoweb is a FrameMaker to HTML
perl script for UNIX. Handles graphics and equations (via ImageMagick and Ghostscript)
as well as tables. Converts cross references, Tables of Contents
and Index files to hypertext links. Contact: peterm@zeta.org.au (Peter G. Martin)
- WebWorks Publisher from
Quadralay Corporation.
- MifMucker
is an application for manipulating Frame documents and books. It contains
a filter to convert FrameMaker documents into HTML.
Contact: harward@convex.com (Ken Harward)
- Release 5 of Framemaker includes an integated
HTML converter.
- www_and_frame.
See
Support Info for current situation and source. Contact: connolly@w3.org (Dan Connolly)
- miftran
(file miftran.tgz). (An MIF to HTML converter written in C. See README).
Contact: jimmc@eskimo.com (Jim McBeath)
- mif.pl
is a Perl library to parse Frame Maker Interchange Format (MIF), designed to be used
by filters. Contact: ehood@convex.com (Earl Hood)
- edc2html
is a Perl program that generates an HTML document to
allow navigation through the structure of a FrameBuilder Element Catalog.
Contact: ehood@convex.com (Earl Hood)
troff etc
- ms2html
(ms to html) Contact: oscar@iam.unibe.ch (Oscar Nierstrasz)
- me2html for the troff me macros is based on this. Contact: troyer@socrates.ucsf.edu (John M. Troyer)
- troff2html. A perl script for the me macros.
Contact: troyer@cgl.ucsf.edu (John M. Troyer)
- Another troff2html
uses nroff to do most of its work and is therefore compatible with many troff pre-processors
such as tbl and refer. Contact: briggsjs@sis.port.ac.uk (Jim Briggs).
- Yet another troff2html
based on an improved version of mm2html.
Works best for the "mm" macros and also supports "ms" but people needed to test this out.
Contact: http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/ (Daniel Quinlan)
- And another troff2html
perl script accepts additional translation rules for macro packages such
as -ms -mv and -man. Most translation rules are ASCII tables, so
they can be changed to your preferences. Contact: mick@picus.dcs.bbk.ac.uk (Mick Farmer)
- unroff
is a Scheme-based, programmable, extensible troff translator
with back-ends for HTML 2.0 and the -man and -ms macros.
Contact: net@cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann)
- mm2html
pre-alpha release of an nroff mm to HTML perl script based heavily on ms2html and fm2html. Contact: J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk
TeX, LaTeX etc.
- TeX4ht
is a highly configurable TeX-based authoring system for
hypertext. It comes with a built-in default setting for plain TeX and LaTeX.
Contact: gurari@cis.ohio-state.edu (Eitan Gurari)
- TTH
is a TeX to HTML translator. Translates plain TeX and LaTeX
into a near equivalent in HTML3.2. Handles mathematics, definitions,
tables, and much else without resorting to embedded graphics. Contact: ian@hutchinson.belmont.ma.us (Ian Hutchinson).
- latex2html
LaTeX to HTML converter (Perl scripts). Handles more
complex LaTeX formatting, for example mathematics, and has a set of
iconic images, which are included for navigation and to mark footnotes and references.
(See also the paper
From LaTeX to HTML and Back at CERN.
- Note: the l2h converter of jkimball@src.honeywell.com (John Kimball) is no longer available.
- LaTeX2hyp is a C program that
converts LaTeX to HTML, Text, TurboVision help, RTF or WinHelp RTF.
- math2html is a
LaTeX mathematics and tables to HTML3 translator.
- vulcanize
is a simple perl script that takes care of the bulk of most nonmathematical LaTeX documents.
Contact: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Mark-Jason Dominus)
- Hyperlatex allows the use of a subset of LaTeX to
produce documents in HTML. Contact: otfried@postech.ac.kr (Otfried Schwarzkopf)
- tex2rtf will convert
LaTeX to HTML as well as RTF, Windows Help RTF and wxHelp. (The source is available
here). Contact: J.Smart@ed.ac.uk
- The LaTeX parser l2x can be used to produce HTML.
Contact: hgs@fokus.gmd.de (Henning Schulzrinne)
- JAM is a meta-language with converters for HTML,
LaTeX and RTF.
- BETA format is an integration of LaTeX and HTML
into a new syntax close to HTML, with a DOS converter that
translates into LaTeX or HTML.
Contact: wassen@iam.rwth-aachen.de (Horst Wassenberg)
- YODL is a document description language with a
conversion package to LaTeX or HTML, as well as other formats.
- axtex is a filter to extract LaTeX "objects" embedded in HTML
and produce a .tex and ultimately an image file for each one,
and produce an HTML file with the corresponding inlines. Contact: thrift@ra.csc.ti.com (Philip Thrift)
- HyperTeX consists of a growing set of standards and software that allows
TeX-based documents to be more fully integrated into WWW (through either DVI or PDF formats).
See the FAQ,
or the information at LANL.
Contact: asmith@bigsky.chem.washington.edu (Arthur Smith)
BibTeX etc.
- bibtex2html takes a BibTeX file as argument and
creates an HTML bibliography together with an HTML document containing the list of
all the entries in BibTeX format. Binaries available for popular Unix systems. Contact: Jean-Christophe.Filliatre@lri.fr
- bib2html is a shell
script plus two BibTeX style files. Contact: dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu (David Kotz)
- Another bib2html is a Perl
script with style file. It takes a BibTeX bibliography and formats it into HTML.
It can also create links to arbitrary URLs and PostScript, PDF, or DVI versions of the papers.
It comes with a CGI script to allow the bibliography to be searched.
Contact: hull@cs.uiuc.edu (David Hull)
- bibhtml is a Perl 5 script.
BibTeX references can be included as anchors in HTML documents, and bibhtml can be used
to create an HTMLized bibliography from them. Contact: J.J.Paijmans@kub.nl (Hans Paijmans)
- Another bibhtml
consists of a Perl script and BibTeX style file, which allow you to compile a
bibliography for a collection of HTML files. Contact: norman@astro.gla.ac.uk (Norman Gray).
- There is a Tcl script for the Mac text editor
Alpha to do .bbl to HTML conversions.
- The Network Bibliography at AT&T uses scripts to index BibTeX files
and to convert them to html on the fly on retrieval.
Contact: schulzrinne@cs.columbia.edu (Henning Schulzrinne)
- The bibliography on autonomous agents
in HCI and CSCW at Birmingham UK also has tools
for BibTeX searching and adding html markup to BibTeX files. Contact: amw@cs.bham.ac.uk (Andy Wood)
- There is also information on
Manipulating BibTeX Bibliographies used for the Computer Science Bibliographies server at Karlsruhe.
Contact: achilles@ira.uka.de (Alf-Christian Achilles)
Texinfo
texi2html
Contact: Lionel.Cons@cern.ch
DECwrite, VAX Document
- decw2html
(a Perl script to process SGML output) Contact: p.lister@cranfield.ac.uk
- Here is an awk script to convert SDML to HTML.
Contact: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel)
- DOCU2HTML is a DCL script to make a rough conversion
of VAX Document SDML files to HTML. Contact: julian@vxcern.cern.ch (Julian Bunn)
Interleaf
QuarkXPress
The beyondexpress.com site offers
advice to graphic designers who use QuarkXPress on how to build web pages
using BeyondPress and other tools.
Contact: kipshaw@beyondexpress.com (Kip Shaw)
- qt2www Perl script to
convert Quark-tagged plain text files to HTML. This is a
general-purpose conversion utility; it reads in a map file that lists
the Quark Tags used in the source file and how they should be
translated into HTML. Versions for Unix, DOS and Macintosh.
Contact: jeremy@cnri.reston.va.us (Jeremy Hylton)
-
HTML Xport is a modest but working HTML export Xtension for QuarkXpress.
Available via
ftp://mars.aliens.com/pub/Macintosh/HTML_Xport.sit
(Or try the info-mac archives).
Contact: eknuds@mars.aliens.com, eknuds@mammoth-tech.com (Eric Knudstrup)
-
e-Gate
from Rosebud Technologies takes QuarkXpress files and generates HTML or
structured ASCII files, as well as JPEG or GIF formats for graphics.
It will also structure articles so that they can be stored and managed in databases.
-
BeyondPress (formerly Gateway) from Astrobyte
is an XTension which translates QuarkXPress documents to HTML.
Contact: info@astrobyte.com.
-
Collect HTML from Logic n.v. is an XTension that allows you to convert text from Quark
pages into HTML format. (Your browser needs frames to access their site).
Styles can be converted into HTML prefixes and
suffixes. Collect is not well suited to convert complete Quark pages; it
better suited to 'clip' articles from large pages (e.g. a newspaper) for
Web publication.
-
HexWeb XT from HexMac
is an XTension that generates HTML files from QuarkXPress pages.
For Macintosh, and soon for Windows 95.
(Your browser needs frames to access their site).
-
Here is a note about some other products.
-
Several export filter kits are also available.
PageMaker
- Dave is an
AppleScript script that works with PageMaker 5.0 to extract articles
and convert them to HTML. Contact: boulter@bucknell.edu (Jeff Boulter)
- WebSucker
for Mac helps convert lengthy Pagemaker 5.0 or 6.0 documents into HTML.
It is good at converting documents with many stories, as it creates a customizable
table of contents to link all the stories together.
Available as a hypercard stack or stand-alone fat binary. New release version 2.8
does not need AppleScript. (see also the
info-mac archives). Contact: mcohen@media.iii.net (Mitchell S. Cohen).
- PM2html is a PageMaker addition for Windows
available from EDCO in freeware and production versions.
- pm2html is another PageMaker addition.
- Adobe PageMaker 6.0 has an HTML Author plug-in
that lets PageMaker users export PageMaker publications into HTML format.
ClarisWorks, MacWrite etc.
AmiPro
See also products handling multiple word processor formats
- AmiWeb
is a package that allows you to compose HTML documents using AmiPro
for Windows.
- another utility for AmiPro
Scribe
There is a technical report
Producing HTML Documents with Scribe
for users of the Scribe document production system.
Contact: trewitt@pa.dec.com (Glenn Trewitt)
-
Internet Assistant for Powerpoint for Windows 95 from Microsoft.
Turns slides into HTML pages; hyperlinks are automatically set up to jump from one
slide to another.
-
HexWeb Slidemaster from HexMac
is a tool sthat lets you publish Persuasion slideshows on the Web.
(Your browser needs frames to access their site).
-
wwwfoil
processes the text outline file produced by Adobe Persuasion and converts to HTML.
It will also do several other useful tasks needed in preparing online presentations for
education. Contact: gcf@npac.syr.edu (Geoffrey Fox)
-
Here are some notes on converting PowerPoint to HTML
-
and see webify
EndNote
EndNote2html is a "style" for the
EndNote bibliographic tool.
It causes EndNote for Microsoft Word to link references in the text to the corresponding
line in the references list. Contact: dransfld@ccc.uni-erlangen.de (Alk Dransfeld)
Linuxdoc-SGML
Linuxdoc-SGML is a text-formatting package based on SGML
that will produce HTML as well as other marked up documents.
Rainbow is an annotated SGML DTD with converters for
word processer documents (in RTF format) and documents created by the
Ventura Publisher and Quark Express DTP packages.
Additional software is needed
to convert the SGML into HTML.
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CERN
19 March 1999