Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:03:01 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, 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: <20101026200301.GA12886@slackbox.erewhon.net> In-Reply-To: <20101026193020.GA3792@thought.org> References: <20101026182958.GA3646@thought.org> <AANLkTikBba5k4CAG_Qa%2BBjwy-URiKY0ak%2BNK0cc38OJB@mail.gmail.com> <20101026205924.91748d4c.freebsd@edvax.de> <20101026193020.GA3792@thought.org>
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--vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:30:20PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > 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 othe= r way > > > around, HTML to PDF. It's often off a bit. I can't remember off the t= op of > > > my head what ports i've tried but yea. Either the images are wonky or= my > > > forms go wonky. > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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. You can add proper justification to the list that HTML doesn't do well! > Hmm. The ligatures that looked so great in my .tex/PDF output > got lost. Very few programs do ligatures well. If you're using unicode text, you can = use them directly in your text, like this: =EF=AC=80 =EF=AC=81 =EF=AC=82 =EF=AC= =83 =EF=AC=84 =EF=AC=86 How well these look depends on the fonts used. I've got a whole list of han= dy unicode characters on my webpage. See the entry marked 2010-10-16. > 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. You might fare better by taking the TeX souce, run it though detex(1) and u= se markdown [http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/] do create HTML. > 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. Next to the obvious textproc/latex2html? :-) Roland --=20 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) --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkzHM/UACgkQEnfvsMMhpyUkXwCgnt7OZRIRy2ia7jXyxkQ/vQK0 MncAn3AKJd3cAEJdOTsPFQY1kaCR3EVo =Nqki -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd--
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