HTML XPort© License and Various other bits of info

Copyright 1995, Eric Knudstrup, All Rights Reserved
I think that the installation of this Extension is pretty straightforward. You simply drop it into your XTensions folder in your QuarkXPress folder. To use it, you select "Save Text..." in the File menu. After you select a file name and folder to put the document in, a dialog box will come up asking for the title of the document. This dialog box supports cut & paste too, so you can put in the title by pasting into this dialog box if you don't want to type it in. If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to email me at eknuds@mars.aliens.com.

I wrote this to fill a need of a friend of mine to build html files from Quark Express documents. There are some limitations built in, since I don't have the $500 to become a registered Xtension developer, and I had to use the XTLite version of the toolkit. This version does not support things such as inline images and reading the style tags from a Quark document.

Here is a list of what it does do so far:

At the end of all documents created by the unregistered version, there is an HTML comment stating so, and my copyright notice.
When you start up Quark, there is a click-to-dismiss dialog box reminding you to register. If this dialog box is not found, HTML XPort will NOT work.
Translates bullets into unordered lists.
Translates the Macintosh special characters, such as em and en dashes and smart quotes, into ascii or html style tags.
If the first indent is set to a value greater than zero, a <P> tag is inserted into the text, otherwise a <BR> tag is inserted.
As of 3 April 1995, there is an HTML Preferences menu item in the Utilities... menu which allows you to set your font sizes for Headings. This will set a range for point sizes to different headings. At this time, fractional point sizes aren't currently supported. It also won't check to make sure that you didn't put anything weird like 'Bob' in for a point size. No harm done. It will just come up with a REALLY strange number. Seatbelts coming in the next model year. ;-)

Here is a list of things that I would like to do in the future, if enough people show an interest in my extension so I can purchase the full Extension developer's kit:

Automated indexing.
Be able to select heading sizes by the document's style tags.
Support inline images.
Any other requests?

If you like this extension, and would like to see it grow, please send a check or money order for $30 dollars American to:

Eric Knudstrup
210 N. Oak
Traverse City, Mi 49684
Please also include name, address, phone number, and, if possible, your e-mail address. I am starting to see sites all over the place that have this filter for download, so registering is the best way to get updates. In any case, I would like to hear from you, good bad or ugly.

I usually work on this filter on my days off from work, so new features and fixes come almost weekly.

This extension may not be distributed without this license statement. You are allowed a period of 30 days after receiving this filter to decide whether or not to register. No warranties are made, expressed or implied.

By the way, this document was exported to HTML using my filter. No fine tuning was done after it was exported.

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