Preserving a letter from Word 2003 when pasting into Frontpage 2002

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Geoff

Hello,

I have used Abbyy fineReader 8.0 to scan a letter the scan was output
inot a Word 2003 document. Apart from a few errors the page is
identical to the original when I open Word.

I now want to paste the letter into Frontpage. But despite my best
efforts Frontpage does not keep the layout of the letter which had been
pasted into a table set to 90% it does include the letter heading
nicely.

Also which adds to my problem with trying to get a copy of the letter
into my webpage the table has resized itself so that it is much wider
than the setting for the table as if its accommodating a large graphic
 
You do *not want to preserve Word's formatting (it's probably even worse if
it went through OCR) you should strip all formatting out (copy/paste it into
Notepad, then copy/paste it into FP - there are other ways to do this as
well). Then format it in FP.


| Hello,
|
| I have used Abbyy fineReader 8.0 to scan a letter the scan was output
| inot a Word 2003 document. Apart from a few errors the page is
| identical to the original when I open Word.
|
| I now want to paste the letter into Frontpage. But despite my best
| efforts Frontpage does not keep the layout of the letter which had been
| pasted into a table set to 90% it does include the letter heading
| nicely.
|
| Also which adds to my problem with trying to get a copy of the letter
| into my webpage the table has resized itself so that it is much wider
| than the setting for the table as if its accommodating a large graphic
|
 
Rob said:
You do *not want to preserve Word's formatting (it's probably even worse if
it went through OCR) you should strip all formatting out (copy/paste it into
Notepad, then copy/paste it into FP - there are other ways to do this as
well). Then format it in FP.


| Hello,
|
| I have used Abbyy fineReader 8.0 to scan a letter the scan was output
| inot a Word 2003 document. Apart from a few errors the page is
| identical to the original when I open Word.
|
| I now want to paste the letter into Frontpage. But despite my best
| efforts Frontpage does not keep the layout of the letter which had been
| pasted into a table set to 90% it does include the letter heading
| nicely.
|
| Also which adds to my problem with trying to get a copy of the letter
| into my webpage the table has resized itself so that it is much wider
| than the setting for the table as if its accommodating a large graphic
|
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Thanks for the advice Rob but I think you might have misunderstood my
intention, which was to publish a letter just as if it had been
scanned. The problem is if I did insert a scan it would be a very
large graphic image. The alternative is to do as you suggest, which is
a lot of work to recreate the look and feel of the original letter.
That letter is meant to be published as a reply to a previously
published letter. A PDF copy, which would be an exact copy of the
letter would defeat my purpose which is enable the reader to follow a
correspondence. Maybe Frontpage can't do this.
 
Then scan it, save it as a .tif and edit it in an image editor, then save it
as a .gif. It won't be too big if you optimize it first.


| Rob Giordano (Crash) wrote:
|
| > You do *not want to preserve Word's formatting (it's probably even worse
if
| > it went through OCR) you should strip all formatting out (copy/paste it
into
| > Notepad, then copy/paste it into FP - there are other ways to do this as
| > well). Then format it in FP.
| >
| >
| > | > | Hello,
| > |
| > | I have used Abbyy fineReader 8.0 to scan a letter the scan was output
| > | inot a Word 2003 document. Apart from a few errors the page is
| > | identical to the original when I open Word.
| > |
| > | I now want to paste the letter into Frontpage. But despite my best
| > | efforts Frontpage does not keep the layout of the letter which had
been
| > | pasted into a table set to 90% it does include the letter heading
| > | nicely.
| > |
| > | Also which adds to my problem with trying to get a copy of the letter
| > | into my webpage the table has resized itself so that it is much wider
| > | than the setting for the table as if its accommodating a large graphic
| > |
| Thanks for the advice Rob but I think you might have misunderstood my
| intention, which was to publish a letter just as if it had been
| scanned. The problem is if I did insert a scan it would be a very
| large graphic image. The alternative is to do as you suggest, which is
| a lot of work to recreate the look and feel of the original letter.
| That letter is meant to be published as a reply to a previously
| published letter. A PDF copy, which would be an exact copy of the
| letter would defeat my purpose which is enable the reader to follow a
| correspondence. Maybe Frontpage can't do this.
|
 
If it's only going to be an image, then a PDF would probably be best.

I don't understand this statement:
 
Paul said:
If it's only going to be an image, then a PDF would probably be best.

I don't understand this statement:
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Well it is considered that the best way of publishing a document even a
single page is in the pdf format. But then the website user would not
get the benefit of being able to see the original letter. What I want
is to publish a reply to a letter and edit that reply's receipients
address to a non-de-plum to hide personal details. I suppose I could
just cover the receipients address etc when I scan the reply letter.
 
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