Import Full Formated Text (late reply)

[Thomas J McGrath III]

Actually, in my case if I could import the content I have and keep the 
formatting (Tabs, Centered lines, Bold, Italic, size, color, kerning 
and baseline shift) then the look and feel would be exactly like the 
rest of my project.
My project is a CD and is 640x480 and so is my content. I wanted it to 
be active text but am considering a pdf solution.

Right now I am very frustrated with REVs poor text consistency within 
itself and not even dealing with the outside text source.

TOm

On Nov 26, 2003, at 6:16 PM, JonathanC at ag.nsw.gov.au wrote:

> On 11/19/03 9:55 AM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote:
>
>> So, when you are creating an interactive project or whatever you are
>> saying that most people have been content to just start from scratch
>> with the text formatting?
>
> Sorry, I know this thread is probably a bit stale (1. I'm a digest
> subscriber + 2. I wrote my reply last week on the train and saved it 
> as a
> 'draft' and then forgot to send it when I got to work :-\ )but, for 
> what
> it's worth ...
>
> I look after a website that has a very advanced web-based CMS 
> (MySource).
> One of its features is that contributors can edit pages - if they are
> using IE on a PC at least -with a WYSIWYG editor. In fact, they can 
> copy
> and paste directly from a Word document, and it will reproduce the
> formatting (almost) exactly. But there are two big problems with that:
>
> 1. The resultant HTML is so full of Micro$oft-proprietary code that the
> page ends up 2 or 3 times bigger than it needs to be.
> 2. (More seriously) The page usually looks terrible, especially in the
> context of the rest of the site, because its font-family, font-size,
> line-height, margins etc. don't match other pages.
>
> 99% of the time, if you're importing text from another source, all you
> need is for your bolds & italics to make it through. And, even then, 
> you
> often need to edit that, to apply your own 'house-style'. (e.g. no
> underlines)
>
> Regarding images, the chances that you will be able to use images with 
> the
> same dimensions/resolution/format/position as the originals are close 
> to
> 0.
>
> OK, that was all from a website point of view, but I believe it would
> apply equally well in (Revolution-based) multimedia.
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan Cooper
> Manager of Information / Website
> Art Gallery of New South Wales
> Sydney, Australia
> http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au
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