Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:30:20 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Liontaur <liontaur@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Is there any way of transfering my excellent PDF file into plain HTML Message-ID: <20101026193020.GA3792@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20101026205924.91748d4c.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20101026182958.GA3646@thought.org> <AANLkTikBba5k4CAG_Qa%2BBjwy-URiKY0ak%2BNK0cc38OJB@mail.gmail.com> <20101026205924.91748d4c.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:59:24PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:38:20 -0700, Liontaur <liontaur@gmail.com> wrote: > > Related but slightly OT, I've never had much luck getting it the other way > > around, HTML to PDF. It's often off a bit. I can't remember off the top of > > my head what ports i've tried but yea. Either the images are wonky or my > > forms go wonky. > > This is simply because HTML is not typesetting-capable. Depending > on the source of the PDF file, it may help to convert from THAT > format instead from PDF. E. g. if you have a .tex (LaTeX) file > that has been the source of the PDF file, you can use a converter > from LaTeX to HTML, often with acceptable results. > > The HTML concept, especially when incorporating CSS for formatting, > _can_ be used to gain a bit typographic quality, e. g. by defining > parameters for "screen" and for "printed" media. Still it suffers > from things like maintaining good grey values, hypenation and > ligatures. Hmm. The ligatures that looked so great in my .tex/PDF output got lost. Only that somehow, HTML4 can read the hex code that abiword's html created. :-) Also, the `` and '' look great in Times. I fixed the page numbers--all had to go away; I edited the chapter headings--all by hand. What's left are the hundreds of broken paragraphs. Since Hizhoron Mr. Reed isn't eager to publish my stuff, I'll prob'ly use "Pubit!" ... ebook only. I figure that if the story doesn't catch fire, at least I won't have to hassle with becoming a publisher:-) What utility take a LaTeX file -> HTML? ((Be nice to have both *strictly professional typeset* and then HTML. I can add indents for AE style paragraphing, and much more. Fix the hyphenation, etc. gary > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org
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