Exporting

Exporting your VoodooPad pages as HTML

(Not available in VoodooPad Lite)

VoodooPad can export your pages as HTML documents, retaining links, images, and some style attributes. You can even customize the look and feel of your pages by editing a special page in your document called "vphtmltemplate".

The contents of the vphtmltemplate page are taken straight as html (so there will be no automatic bolding or image exporting of its contents), and used as a template. So if you want to add your own fancy css styling you can do that.

There are also two special placeholders you must use to place your pages in the template- Anywhere the symbol $vptitle shows up in the template, it will be substituted for the current page title. And the contents of the page will be placed where you have the symbol $vppage.

Here's an example that you can cut and paste into your own vphtmltemplate page:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
            "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
        <title>$vptitle</title>

        <style>
        body  {
            background: #eee;
        }
        #header {
            background: #fff;
            padding: 4px;
            margin-bottom: 5px;
            border: solid 1px #000;
            text-align: center;
        }
        #main {
            background: #fff;
            padding: 4px;
            border: solid 1px #000;
        }
        #copyright {
            font-size: 10px;
            color: #888;
            text-align: center;
        }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="header">
        <a href="index.html">My Website</a>.
    </div>

    <div id="main">
        $vppage
    </div>
    <div id="copyright">
        © 2003 John Joe
    </div>

    </body>
    </html>

Exporting as RTFD, Plain Text, or Microsoft Word documents

(Not all options are available in VoodooPad Lite)

RTFD Export. The "RTF" in RTFD stands for "Rich Text File", which is a convenient file format for documents, however it does not retain images. The extra "D" in it stands for directory, in which Mac OS X will store the images. Put those two together and you get RTFD, which is a nice file format that keeps your pages formatted exactly as you would see them inside VoodooPad.

Plain Text. There isn't much to say about it. Plain text files are just that- simple files with text in them. No markup, no formatting, just paragraphs and words. But it was good enough for Shakespeare.

Microsoft Word. You can also export your document as Word files, which you can then share with your unenlightened PC using friends.