Comments on: Convert A File To HTML Instantly With File2.ws

By: rob1951

rob1951 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:07:59 +0000

It just converted my 80k pdf into a 250k jpg, what’s the point of that? It’s not what I’d mean by “convert pdf to html”.
I expect (and usually get) better quality recommendations from MUO.

By: David

David — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:09:04 +0000

Hey firstly, thanks for creating this tool

I think some of the comments here highlight the need for a tool which converts normal computing documents, image’s etc into code which can be used on a website, in most cases for text documents this would be html markup. There must be another way to extract text and formatting from a word document and transfer this to html for the content and css for the formatting.

By: renevranc

renevranc — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:33:32 +0000

thx will check this out

By: A. G.

A. G. — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:34:26 +0000

When I upload a Microsoft Word file with .docx extension it just shows the download link, not an image of the document as with .doc files.

Probably that kind of file isn’t supported at this time, but good tool anyway.

By: Jonathan Wylie

Jonathan Wylie — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:05:26 +0000

I can see this having many uses in education. I will add it to my blog as a useful tool for staff collaboration or posting student work.

By: absurdist

absurdist — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:00:50 +0000

I’d like a pony too.

Seriously, some people will complain about anything. For what it offers, i.e. a quick, free, painless, free, easy, free way to convert a file to a posting on the web, it appears to do the job very well.

By: Bill Bell

Bill Bell — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:35:02 +0000

I would like to expand on Mr Drakulich’s comment.

I just tried converting an MS Word document using this service. What the service did was to capture the _appearance_ of the document’s contents as a series of image files and then to produce an HTML file which presents these image files so that the whole thing looks like the original Word document.

This might be alright for some purposes. However, what many of us actually want is a service that converts the text and markup in a Word document into text and HTML markup. Usually we want to be able to modify the markup.

By: Karl Gechlik

Karl Gechlik — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:30:20 +0000

If you need to be able to copy the text just use a txt file instead of word.

By: Stefan Drakulich

Stefan Drakulich — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:16:01 +0000

Well, I think it’s pretty pointless that the word file comes out as an image! There is no formatting if all it does is make it into an image….

By: jollyrogue

jollyrogue — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:56:28 +0000

this will come in very handy. handy indeed. thanks Karl.