On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, luigi scarso wrote:

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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Hi,

I just attended a talk about pdf2htmlEX at the tug 2013 conference ... this looks quite interesting ...

http://coolwanglu.github.io/**pdf2htmlEX/http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/

http://soft.rubypdf.com/**software/pdf2htmlex-windows-**versionhttp://soft.rubypdf.com/software/pdf2htmlex-windows-version

It works (mostly) ok on even complex context manuals like metafun-s.pdf and fonts-mkiv.pdf.

pdf is still better for the size 474173 Oct 23 15:53 swiglib.html 114739 Oct 23 15:55 swiglib.html.7z 90140 Sep 26 11:19 swiglib.pdf

I get similar sizes: 4.7M Oct 23 13:44 MDP.html 3.2M Oct 23 13:45 MDP.html.7z 1.6M Oct 20 13:03 MDP.pdf but it is impressive that it can correctly render the output. I am not sure how it compares with PDF.js in terms of speed and accuracy. One drawback (or advantage, depending on how you want to look at it) is that text cannot be copy pasted. Aditya

On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, luigi scarso wrote:

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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I get similar sizes:

4.7M Oct 23 13:44 MDP.html 3.2M Oct 23 13:45 MDP.html.7z 1.6M Oct 20 13:03 MDP.pdf

but it is impressive that it can correctly render the output.

I am not sure how it compares with PDF.js in terms of speed and accuracy. One drawback (or advantage, depending on how you want to look at it) is that text cannot be copy pasted.

hm I can.. https://swiglib.foundry.supelec.fr/rationale/swiglib.html

So can I for that file. I'll check again what is happening with the test file that I was using. Aditya

On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, john Culleton wrote:

On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:32:57 +0900 Hans Hagen wrote:

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Hi,

I just attended a talk about pdf2htmlEX at the tug 2013 conference ... this looks quite interesting ...

http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/

http://soft.rubypdf.com/software/pdf2htmlex-windows-version

It works (mostly) ok on even complex context manuals like metafun-s.pdf and fonts-mkiv.pdf.

1. Is ther a generic Linuz version?

The website contains link to Ubuntu, Arch, and Gentoo packages. Based on the Arch PKGBUILD, installation is equivalent to: git clone git://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX.git cd pdf2htmlEX make install

2. Is this a stepping stone towards a path from a pdf to a kindle and/or an ePub document?

Looking at the generated HTML, I very much doubt that. It is using some heavy CSS to get the exact reproduction. Aditya