From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 19:33:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AD4D106564A for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:33:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 311138FC19 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:33:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9DA34E83B22; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:33:09 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Roland Smith Message-ID: <20101026193309.GB3792@thought.org> References: <20101026182958.GA3646@thought.org> <20101026183522.GA9593@slackbox.erewhon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101026183522.GA9593@slackbox.erewhon.net> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Is there any way of transfering my excellent PDF file into plain HTML X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:33:11 -0000 On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:35:22PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:30:01AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > One thing that Linux misses--or seems to--is all the conversion > > programs that go from one format to another. I _was_ able to use > > abiread to get a PDF text into an obscure HTML, but hundreds of > > paragraphs get broken up. So: is there any conversion program to > > do it *right*? > > Try pdftohtml from the graphics/poppler-utils port. > > Roland Why it is in graphics/ ? Well, I'll have a look; between you and Polyt, and my own hair-pulling by-hand wotk, ... thanks, gary > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- 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