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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: Is there any way of transfering my excellent PDF file into
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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.


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Polytropon
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