copy paste word doc to adobe golive

[Karen]

Hi everyone,
I hope someone can help. My son has made a web site for a history day
project using adobe golive. Having taught himself by the use of the
"clasroom in a book". The site he made is wonderful and had won at school and
at the district. He put his bibiography entry on the site put into a PDF
file in which our trial is no longer valid. According to the judges the
bibliography needs to be changed to be directly on the site. When he tries
to copy and paste it in the required MLA format the spacing becomes
incorrect. Does anyony have any help you can offer.
Rather clueless Mom trying to help,
Karen

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Karen

I hope someone can help. My son has made a web site for a history day
project using adobe golive. Having taught himself by the use of the
"clasroom in a book". The site he made is wonderful and had won at school and
at the district. He put his bibiography entry on the site put into a PDF
file in which our trial is no longer valid.

Your trial of what?

According to the judges the
bibliography needs to be changed to be directly on the site. When he tries
to copy and paste it in the required MLA format the spacing becomes
incorrect. Does anyony have any help you can offer.

First of all: you're posting this question in a forum for Microsoft
Word. It's not clear to me if any part of your son's online "publishing"
is done in Word at all.

PDF is intended to be very stable in terms of formatting/layout, and
hence a good choice if you need to conform to a given standard (MLA). If
you have to do it "directly" on the site, you are working in HTML. And
that is by default _not_ a very good choice for a specific format.

PDF is certainly also not a good starting point if you need to convert
its contents -- always use the original file and application, whatever
it was, that has been used to create the PDF, and export/copy from there.

Whether or not, or how close you can come to a given specification with
Adobe GoLive, you really need to ask this in a forum for GoLive.

HTH
Robert