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| From | Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing |
| Date | 2021-03-01 15:00 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <BNRfA-7uK-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <BNOhH-5Is-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <BNQjv-6Wn-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 03/01/2021 06:58 AM, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 04:44:56 -0600 > Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote: > >> A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. >> Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing. >> >> pdf2htmlEX is an inappropriate tool as it is too focused on maintaining >> format of original. Its rigidity results in a fixed number of >> *characters* per line irregardless of chosen font size. As there is >> nothing formatted as a table, this restriction is inappropriate. >> >> The only relevant links in the document are from the "Table of Contents" >> to the appropriate section. pdf2htmlEX *IGNORES* them! >> >> A suggested tool? > > You can try pdftohtml, in poppler-utils. I don't know whether it will > suffer from the same problem you have with pdf2htmlEX > I had initially ignored it as the man page starts with: > This manual page documents briefly the pdftohtml command. This manual page was > written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does > not have a manual page. When it says "brief" it meant "options will be only *listed*"! I just tried it and it apparently suffers same end result. If someone knows of some functional documentation for it, I'll try again.
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Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-01 11:50 +0100
Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2021-03-01 13:30 +0100
Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-01 14:00 +0100
Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-03-01 15:00 +0100
Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-03-01 14:00 +0100
Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-01 15:00 +0100
Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-03-01 14:10 +0100
Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-01 14:20 +0100
Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-03-01 16:20 +0100
Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-03-01 17:40 +0100
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