Debian repository -- any well documented PDF to HTML converters?

2025-04-05 Thread Richard Owlett
I've just received a 68 page PDF document. I don't know proper terminology but visually it resembles an outline in many of it's items are multiple paragraphs. The points are "collapsible". When everything is collapsed, the document index is 9 lines. Due to vision/perception issues I find it mo

Re: Debian repository -- any well documented PDF to HTML converters?

2025-03-20 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 3/19/25 à 15:50, Richard Owlett a écrit : A quick DuckDuckGo search of https://www.emacswiki.org didn't find it. I changed the search parameters a bit: javascript org-mode folding First google hit: https://orgmode.org/manual/JavaScript-support.html First link in that page: https://orgmode.or

Re: Debian repository -- any well documented PDF to HTML converters?

2025-03-19 Thread Richard Owlett
On 3/19/25 8:59 AM, Yassine Chaouche wrote: Le 3/19/25 à 14:52, Richard Owlett a écrit : [...] I has a *problem*. The PDF can collapse sub-points. The HTML *cannot*. I think I saw a javascript code on emacswiki that does that for html exports from org-mode documents, but sorry, I didn't take

Re: Debian repository -- any well documented PDF to HTML converters?

2025-03-19 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 3/19/25 à 14:52, Richard Owlett a écrit : [...] I has a *problem*. The PDF can collapse sub-points. The HTML *cannot*. I think I saw a javascript code on emacswiki that does that for html exports from org-mode documents, but sorry, I didn't take any notes about it... Best, -- yassine -- s

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 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. I think what you're trying to do is quite difficult. It's a bit easier than OCR, but still hard enough that it's not well supported by any tool that I know.

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 07:13 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/01/2021 07:04 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. They certainly don't write it that way, so perhaps they have a source website where the original text is written? With

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 01 Mar 06:55 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/01/2021 06:22 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > On 01.03.2021 15:44, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > A suggested tool? > > I can't suggest a converter, but maybe sane PDF viewer, like "evince", > > will solve your problems. > > It can chan

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 06:58 AM, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 04:44:56 -0600 Richard Owlett 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 ma

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 07:04 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. They certainly don't write it that way, so perhaps they have a source website where the original text is written? With that in mind I had already posted to a list fo

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Owlett wrote: > A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. They certainly don't write it that way, so perhaps they have a source website where the original text is written? -dsr-

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 04:44:56 -0600 Richard Owlett 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. I

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 06:22 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 01.03.2021 15:44, Richard Owlett wrote: A suggested tool? I can't suggest a converter, but maybe sane PDF viewer, like "evince", will solve your problems. It can change font size, page layout and has other useful capabilities like index\

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 01.03.2021 15:44, Richard Owlett wrote: A suggested tool? I can't suggest a converter, but maybe sane PDF viewer, like "evince", will solve your problems. It can change font size, page layout and has other useful capabilities like index\bookmarks and text search. For me reading documents in

Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
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 irr

Re: converting pdf to html?

2001-04-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
ource, can be trivially converted to PDF, PS, and HTML these days. Quick scan of Debian utilities doesn't suggest anything. A Google search does: http://www.google.com/search?q=pdf+to+html+conversion&btnG=Google+Search Cheers. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.n

Re: converting pdf to html?

2001-04-18 Thread Alan Shutko
Forrest English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i've got a book that someone has asked me to convert to html. it's > got tons of images, and other things to complicate things... It would be easiest and least lossy to convert the original format to HTML. What is the original format? (Odds are, yo

converting pdf to html?

2001-04-18 Thread Forrest English
i've got a book that someone has asked me to convert to html. it's got tons of images, and other things to complicate things... even if it didn't convert the images, i could do that by hand. and obviously, if i have to do the whole thing by hand... i will. but, i'd much preffer to use someh

pdf to html

1999-06-06 Thread Lawrence
Is there any software that can convert acrobat .pdf file to .html format? Lawrence