htmldoc [was: html2ps: A plug]

[Joel Hammer]

I use acrobat reader 5.05 for linux and for windows.  Acrobat reader in
linux is a very capable reader. I don't see any big difference between
it and the windows version. Acrobat installs effortlessly, and is not
plagued by missing library issues, and no need to upgrade to the latest
and greatest version of kde to use it, either. I really wish the koffice
developers would think about that. In linux, I get the thumbnails which
work. In windows I get blank thumbnails, on the same document generated
with html2ps.  I don't know why, but the only difference I can think of
is screen resolution, which is higher on my linux computer than on my
windows computer.

I have found one drawback with html2ps. If you have an image, the text will
not flow around it, it will come out at the top or bottom. I wrote the
author, and he says that is a bug in the program. If I knew enough Perl I
would fix that up. Maybe I will, if I can get the time.(Doubtful).

html2ps will make bookmarks for you, using the <h1-3> headings as the basis
for the bookmarks. I haven't tried the table of contents feature. 

I have been very pleased with taking my textfiles, generating the html
with a sed script (a long one!), using html2ps to get the postscript
after stripping out the confusing (to html2ps) input buttons, and ps2pdf
(part of the ghostscript package) to get the pdf.

Joel

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 10:49:43AM +0000, Anita Lewis wrote:
> 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 something 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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