Converting .pdf to .chm or .html

[Devin Whalen]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 14:46, Taavi Burns wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:31:19PM -0400, Devin Whalen wrote:
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > I tried it and it worked.
> > 
> > PDFs are [usually] searchable, and often have a table of contents which 
> > > make them easy to browse. What type of files are you looking at?
> > 
> > Yeah, I can search for a word, but I can't click on the table of
> > contents and get to where I want to go.  Anyway, the program you gave me
> > works great, so no more problems :).  Thanks again.
> 
> If you're having that problem, then either you've got old/poorly made
> PDF files, or your PDF reader sucks.
> 
> And yes, KGhostView and KPDF both seem to suck.  Acrobat Reader does do
> the linked bits properly, and is actually quite a bit faster than any other
> PDF reader I've tried in Linux.  *shrug*
> 
> http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/~burns/web/Report.pdf has internal and external
> hyperlinks in it that Acrobat follows quite nicely.  It was created in LaTeX
> using the hyperref package:
> http://www.tug.org/applications/hyperref/manual.html

Hey,

If you're having that problem, then either you've got old/poorly made
> PDF files, or your PDF reader sucks.

Is there any Linux PDF viewer that does render the links properly?

I just tried gv and it seems a lot better than xpdf.  Not as great as
when I converted the file to html, but the page numbers actually
correspond to page number in the table of contents (unlike in xpdf where
I was on page 93 but what was actually page 30 or something in the table
of contents.).  I haven't actually tried it in Adobe Acrobat so maybe
the table of contents is not clickable (is that a word?) because the
file sucks?  I will try that out when I get a chance.

Thanks.


Later


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