On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 08:59:24PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:38:20 -0700, Liontaur <[email protected]> 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.
Hmm. The ligatures that looked so great in my .tex/PDF output
got lost. 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.
Since Hizhoron Mr. Reed isn't eager to publish my stuff, I'll
prob'ly use "Pubit!" ... ebook only. I figure that if the story
doesn't catch fire, at least I won't have to hassle with
becoming a publisher:-)
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.
gary
>
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