htmldoc [was: html2ps: A plug]

[Anita Lewis]

On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 11:06:18 -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I was just informed by the html2ps people that generation of thumbnails is
> automatically done by acrobat 5, the html2ps program doesn't generate
> them. However, html2ps must be doing somthing because enscript conversion
> of text files followed by ps2pdf doesn't create thumbnails.
> 
> Joel

I was wanting to make bookmarks on the side and got confused with my
terminology. I was calling that 'thumbnails'.  More on that in a second.

Anyway, I tried this with another program that is really something.  It's
called htmldoc.  This program will put several html pages together into one
and put the Table of Contents at the top.  It will also make it into pdf or
ps instead.  I looked at the results in xpdf and no bookmarks. Then I got
the bright idea to go over to Windows and look in Acrobat and there were my
bookmarks on the side.  Very cool.  I'm going to try putting a table of
contents in manually and run html2ps and ps2pdf on it and see if I get the
same thing.  I guess I'll also get Acrobat for Linux.  Wonder if there is a
GPL pdf reader that does the bookmarks.

Anyway, I see thumbnails there too, but they are just grey pages.  I don't
have any pictures in my pages; so maybe they would show up if I did.

htmldoc works in CLI and in X.  In X it is very easy to run an gets results
fast.

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Anita
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