Re: How does one make pdftohtml run?

From: Conrad Knauer <atheoi_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Thu Jan 25 2007 - 04:51:13 CST

On 1/24/07, jimw wagner <jpw@sasktel.net> wrote:

> I have a large book, 230 pages long, done in pdf. I'd really like to
> switch it to html, or possibly even a series of graphic files, so I could
> make enlargements of the pages before I print them out.

The GIMP (in Feisty, anyway) can open PDFs so maybe try that :)

> Suppose we say the pdf I want to muck around with is /home/x/y.pdf, what
> should the command look like, including for instance, the f(irst) [p1] and
> the l(ast) [p230].

Disclaimer: Since I'm using Feisty, so this might be a bit different
(pdftohtml is now part of poppler-utils), but if you cd to the dir
with the PDF and run:

pdftohtml -f 1 -l 230 y.pdf

that should work.

CK
Received on Thu Jan 25 04:51:24 2007

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