Re: How does one make pdftohtml run?

On 1/26/07, jimw wagner <jpw@sasktel.net> wrote:

> > Oh! Hey Jim, if you just want nice images, don't use pdftohtml, use
> > pdftoppm, e.g.:
> >
> > pdftoppm -f 1 -l 2 y.pdf nameprefix
> >
> > (nameprefix will be tacked onto all the files, but needs to be there
> > it seems)
> >
> > The default files produced are large (~6 MB per page in a test I ran).
> > If that's too big, try playing with the options.
> >
>
> Thanks, Conrad. I'm really going to have to switch to something a bit
> more modern than Dapper.

Actually, you can stick with Dapper a little longer since according to
packages.ubuntu.com pdftoppm exists in Dapper in the "poppler-utils"
package.

(though I'd recommend switching to Feisty in April; even in alpha its
really nice :)

CK
Received on Sat Jan 27 01:55:38 2007