RE: PDF's from HTML's - How do you deal with those ugly page breaks?

["Glenn Maxey" <glenn -dot- maxey -at- voyanttech -dot- com>]

I maintain the source in FM with an aim at printing/PDF. Hence, tables
columns get headings and other things carried over appropriately from
page to page.

Then I use mif2go (or wwp) to export to HTML.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Maas [mailto:tommaas -at- hotmail -dot- com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:14 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: PDF's from HTML's - How do you deal with those ugly page
> breaks?
> 
> 
> I have a 25 page HTML document with lots of tables.  When I 
> send the HTML 
> file to Acrobat Distiller, I get a great looking PDF file 
> with page breaks 
> in the most unfortunate places (tables broken in half, text split 
> horizontally with one half on one page and the other half on another).
> 
> So, how many of you take the time to manipulate the HTML file 
> to make their 
> exported PDF's look good?  How do you do it without making 
> the HTML into a 
> high maintenance document, requiring re-tweaking every time there's a 
> paragraph added to sheet 1?

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