Document conversion not very useful & broken in one case

This is another case where the Publishing parts of MOSS are not integrated cleanly IMO.

I created a site collection under a publishing root level site. This site collection did not have the Publishing Features activated.

When I uploaded a Word 2007 file, the context menu has an item labelled Convert Document >> From Word Document to Web Page.

Not knowing what this was I tried it. You immediately get an error screen displaying:

The site is not valid. The 'Pages' document library is missing.

There is no indication what the problem is related to.

So I created a 'Pages' document library. Tried the same menu item and got the same message.

Then I added the Publishing Infrastructure to my site. Same result.

Then I looked on the web about this error message and I was instructed to check Central Administration. I did this and saw:

Document Conversions Launcher Service is present and started

Finally I made a site collection using the Publishing site template. Then I uploaded the document to this new site collection and tried the menu item again. Lo and behold:

The document converter was able to create HTML from this document, but it had to modify the output:
1 embedded image(s) from the document were not preserved in the HTML.

Click OK to go to the created page.

I went to the page and it looked like Word's old SaveAs Html option. Not very useful!

So this menu item is enabled even though in many instances it will cause an error. Not the A answer!

Regards..

Roger Williams
Franklin Laboratory