Windows-based HTML Tools

This page provides pointers to tools that are not included on the HTML CD for Windows, but that we thought might be of help in your HTML authoring efforts.

Excel 5.0 to HTML Table Converter

A Visual Basic Macro for Microsoft Excel - translates Excel spreadsheets to HTML 3 tables. By Jordan Evans.

pm2html

PageMaker to HTML converter. Free, an enhanced version may be purchased. From EDCO Services, Inc. (edco@gate.net) (813) 962-7800

PS2HTML

A DOS program intended to convert output files produced by Windows 3.1 PostScript printer drivers to HTML format. Developed at Florence Research Area and Electromagnetic Research Institute of National Research Council in Florence by Alessandro Agostini and Stefano Cerreti.

Tile

A software program to create Internet accessible World Wide Web documents from Lotus Notes databases. A commercial product from Walter Shelby Group Ltd (tile@shelby.com). The link only provides information about the product.

WebWatch

WebWatch will check the URLs in a document to see if they have changed. It produces an HTML report on the status of any URLs that have changed or are not reachable. Shareware. From Specter Inc. (janos@specter.com).

Perl and HTML Perl Utilities

Perl, the Practical Extraction and Report Language, is great for doing string manuipulations, and many useful utilities for HTML have been written in it. Perl originated on Unix. Although Perl is available for DOS now, it is a little tricky to run it. If you are a novice, we recommend that you find an experienced user (preferably someone with programming experience) to help you setup Perl and the tools written in Perl.

PERL 4.036

This is a DOS version of Perl. Here is some documentation that may be of help: an on-line Perl manual and set of Perl resources from Nexor. Perl is also available from other locations.

txt2html.pl

Meng Weng Wong's Perl text to HTML converter.

txt2html

Another Perl text to HTML converter. This one is by Seth Golub.

htmltoc

A Perl routine that generates a table of contents from a set of HTML documents. By Earl Hood (ehood@convex.com)

MHonArc

An Internet mail-to-HTML converter. By Earl Hood (ehood@convex.com)