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**Created:** [October 18, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/convert-illustrator-file-to-html-or-css-for-programming-on-ruby/151204 "2008-10-18T02:54:20Z")\
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**Author:**  [@carladeluxe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/carladeluxe)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/convert-illustrator-file-to-html-or-css-for-programming-on-ruby/151204/1 "2008-10-18T02:54:20Z")
HI there,
My graphic designer and my programmer are having a communications
snafu, and it’s my job to translate.
The programmer is saying that if there’s a simple conversion method to
take web page designs created in Illustrator and convert them to HTML
or CSS, it will save him about 50% of programming time.
This is good news for everyone, but how best does the conversion
happen?
Thanks for your consideration.
Carla
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**Author:**  [@carladeluxe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/carladeluxe)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/convert-illustrator-file-to-html-or-css-for-programming-on-ruby/151204/2 "2008-10-18T21:13:22Z")
carladeluxe wrote:
> HI there,
>
> My graphic designer and my programmer are having a communications
> snafu, and it’s my job to translate.
>
> The programmer is saying that if there’s a simple conversion method to
> take web page designs created in Illustrator and convert them to HTML
> or CSS, it will save him about 50% of programming time.
>
> This is good news for everyone, but how best does the conversion
> happen?
>
> Thanks for your consideration.
I don’t know of any tool that provides this…
Isn’t this partially what you’re paying your programmer to do anyways?
Michael G.
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**Author:**  [@carladeluxe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/carladeluxe)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/convert-illustrator-file-to-html-or-css-for-programming-on-ruby/151204/3 "2008-10-19T00:18:05Z")
Export it to Photoshop as a PSD, slice it up from there, then have
your programmer clean up the output and add the dynamic content.
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**Author:**  [@carladeluxe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/carladeluxe)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/convert-illustrator-file-to-html-or-css-for-programming-on-ruby/151204/4 "2008-10-19T00:46:11Z")
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Alex [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> Export it to Photoshop as a PSD, slice it up from there, then have
> your programmer clean up the output and add the dynamic content.
Just make sure you export as CSS. The default (at least in CS 3 or
below) is to export as a tables based layout.
Mikel
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**Author:**  [@carladeluxe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/carladeluxe)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/convert-illustrator-file-to-html-or-css-for-programming-on-ruby/151204/5 "2008-10-19T06:53:33Z")
check out this place: [http://www.xhtmlized.com/](http://www.xhtmlized.com/)
there are other companies that do the same thing, unfortunately this
is the only name i can remember right now.
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**Author:**  [@carladeluxe](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/carladeluxe)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 5:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/convert-illustrator-file-to-html-or-css-for-programming-on-ruby/151204/6 "2008-10-19T05:44:34Z")
thank you