[Ach] PDF2HTML

[Axel Hübl]

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While discussing the underlaying markup language one should not forget
one thing:

  https://xkcd.com/1301/

Anyway, did someone try the tools listed here?
  https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Export_To_Other_Formats

IMHO immediate latex -> html/epub conversion should be most promising
(instead of re-converting the pdf).

Aren't hevea/latex2html/TeX4ht/bibtex2html (html) and Pandoc (epub)
doing the trick?

Axel
On 21.05.2014 11:00, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 02:57:05PM +0200, Tobias Pape wrote:
>> I myself played around with that already.
>> 
>> However, it is actually hard to get decent support for acronyms,
>> let alone indexing with reST or even Markdown converters.
> 
> and I've not found good citation support yet, or does someone know
> about extensions that support citations similar to BiBTeX?
> 
> Ralf
> 

On 20.05.2014 16:08, Alexander Wuerstlein wrote:
> On 14-05-20 15:53, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>> On 20.05.2014, at 15:36, Aaron Zauner <azet at azet.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> So,.. this would look like that:
>>> 
http://www.mediafire.com/view/cdl67eb2d82hhva/applied-crypto-hardening.pdf
>>> 
>>> not too bad IMHO
>> 
>> Not too bad, yes. I have a bad gut feeling for the overall
>> layout, however. PDFs made for booklike things (the way it is
>> currently done for the
ACH pdf)
>> does not fit well with typical html conventions. That said, this
>> is one of the best pdf->html conversions I have seen.
> 
> Thats considered PDF->HTML? I thought that was some kind of ebook.
> There are imho several problems with this format: - Javascript and
> Cookies are required to view it. Since turning those to default-off
> is one of the better security advices concerning browsers I would
> consider this a huge problem. - Internal hyperlinks do not work:
> Entries in the ToC are not clickable, etc. - C&P does not work any
> better than in PDF: Cipher-Strings still contain spurious
> line-breaks. So this kind of HTML conversion buys us nothing. - The
> layout does not reflow if I resize the window, which negates one of
> the more important features of HTML: output device independence. -
> The not-really-HTML-but-Javascript-magic mess means that search 
> engines won't be able to index that - It also means that links into
> that document are impossible - Search inside the document does not
> work, except for the part of the document that is currently
> displayed.
> 
> HTML conversions of that kind, while admittedly good-looking are
> imho useless, PDF.js in Firefox or the PDF viewer in Chrome provide
> the same functionality with less of a hassle for us with even
> better visual and UI quality and features.
> 
> 
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> Alexander Wuerstlein. 
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