I told the group that in my experience, the more artistic the effort that was made in any of the above products to create a very visually appealing paper document, the worse would be the HTML code that would be generated by the Word Processor / DTP program. To illustrate this fact I took the Page Maker 6.5 file I had just received from the editor of the APCUG (Association of Personal Computer User Groups) of the January issue of APCUG Reports, and showed those in attendence how impressive the layout was on the screen, and how that layout would be preserved directly when the document was printed, and we then told PageMaker to publish the document to an HTML file, and took a look at it, and the results were terrible. I knew they would be, because after the editor publishes this quarterly publication, he sends me the file to be converted to a web document, and I have to extract each article as an ASCII text file, and use each one individually to generate an acceptable looking web page.

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