Re: TECH: pdf to html conversion

When a Google search turns up a PDF document the search results includes a link
"view as HTML". If you can do a Google search that finds your pdf, maybe the
built-in Google conversion will work for you.

See, for example:
<http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:TK88RMlRmIQJ:cinduworld.tripod.com/prevli_comparatives.pdf+Prevli&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us&client=firefox-a>

--gary


--- On Fri, 12/26/08, Roger Mills <romiltz@...> wrote:

> From: Roger Mills <romiltz@...>
> Subject: TECH: pdf to html conversion
> To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
> Date: Friday, December 26, 2008, 3:42 PM
> I am faced with the daunting task of converting my Prevli
> files to html rather than pdf's-- pdf's are very
> easy to do, but the ones I've done are huge files.
> I'm pretty sure html files are smaller. Some of the
> Prevli files are lengthy-- at least as big as the comparable
> Kash files, and my Tripod website is in danger of getting
> overloaded).
>
> Does there exist a reliable, free (or cheap) thingy that
> can convert pdf's to html?  I see that Adobe offers one,
> but they mention that "foreign languages" may not
> work (umlauts etc., and Prevli is full of special chars.).
>
> The alternative is to do the html-ing myself..........Some
> time ago I had Nvu, and never quite got the hang of it; but
> I might have to try it again. Any experiences???

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