Re: Tips to convert Google Docs into clean HTML?

[Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>]

Lin,

I think the point you hit on was high up in your message:

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 13:18 Lin Laurie <linlaurie1 -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:

> I kept asking to work on a PC but they wanted me to work on a Chromebook.


!!!!!!

>
There doesn't seem to be a way to take Google Docs and transfer them into
> HTML in a clean way

...
> LMK if anyone finds a good process to convert from GD to HTML. I'd love to
> pass it on.


The cleanest way has always been to export as Word, convert the HTML
content to a workable format, then insert the images from the DOCX file.
There is probably a way to script the process, but youâd need a dev machine
and not a chrome book. Even RDP into a desktop would be fine.

Still more, getting the package into Saleforce would offer its own issues.

So, either way, youâre screwed.

Over 10 years ago I wrote VBA to convert Word 2007 docs to DocBook, which
is eventually worked flawlessly. That was an intermediate step before
migrating into DITA.

Knowing what I know now, I would probably use  PanDoc in a script rather
than VBA. Itâs just we used what I knew at the time.

Now Eliot Kimber has what I believe should be a stable module to convert
from Word DOCX to DITA. Then you could transform from DITA to HTML. Iâm
pretty sure the process still wouldnât work on a Chromebook.

-Tony
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