I'd like to read the book on my screen, and on my PDA. But, I'd also like
to distribute it to my lab and instructor. For these reasons I think PDF
is the best formatting choice.
tidy seems to convert html -> xhtml well. I'll try fop for converting
xml/etc -> pdf later today, and post my results.
- Sebastian
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Dennis Bagley wrote:
You haven't said "how" you want to read this book....on your PC screen,
print it out, on a PDA or what.
I read a LOT of books on my PDA primarily in Mobipocket format and there
used to be and probably still is a desktop version as well. While
Mobipocket is not OSS, the reader is free and I think the conversion
software is also free. So, the book could be converted from HTML and it
"should" retain its hyperlinks. Take a look and see what you think.
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 23:07 -0400, Brian Chrisman wrote:
Sebastian Smith wrote:
Hi All,
I haven't RTFM on this one yet, but could use some advice anyway.
I've downloaded the online version of a textbook using wget. It's a
great book, but a pain to view in html, and not very portable (there
are a couple thousand files associated with this book). So, what I'd
like to do is convert the book to pdf. I'm not sure how to go about
it though. I'd like all links to remain intact so that navigating
through the book is still easy.
Here is a link to the book:
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Esutton/book/ebook/the-book.html
I appreciate your suggestions.
How good do you want it to be? There are things like html2pdf out there
which can vaguely do what you're looking for... the big limitation being
that pdf is a typesetting language, whereas HTML is nominally a
display-neutral markup language.... ie, there's no real concept in html
of where to stop or start a particular page, footer, or what not, while
there is in pdf. XSL:FO(and to some extent, XSLt) is all about turning
XML into pdf documents, but FO is extremely... err.. verbose...
Later versions of CSS also seem to be doing somewhat of a half-assed job
at becoming a typesetting language.
Thanks,
- Sebastian
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