Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 03/01/2021 06:58 AM, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 04:44:56 -0600
> Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>
> > A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file.
> > Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing.
> >
> > pdf2htmlEX is an inappropriate tool as it is too focused on maintaining
> > format of original. Its rigidity results in a fixed number of
> > *characters* per line irregardless of chosen font size. As there is
> > nothing formatted as a table, this restriction is inappropriate.
> >
> > The only relevant links in the document are from the "Table of Contents"
> > to the appropriate section. pdf2htmlEX *IGNORES* them!
> >
> > A suggested tool?
>
> You can try pdftohtml, in poppler-utils. I don't know whether it will
> suffer from the same problem you have with pdf2htmlEX

I had initially ignored it as the man page starts with:
> This manual page documents briefly the pdftohtml command. This manual page was
> written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does
> not have a manual page. 

When it says "brief" it meant "options will be only *listed*"!

I just tried it and it apparently suffers same end result.
If someone knows of some functional documentation for it, I'll try again.