Re: How does one make pdftohtml run?

From: jimw wagner <jpw_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Thu Jan 25 2007 - 10:01:53 CST

Conrad Knauer wrote:
> 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.
>
I can load it into the GIMP too, but I can't seem to get more than the
Title Page. Can't see any way of moving from page to page.

Thanks,

JimW
Received on Thu Jan 25 10:02:11 2007

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