SPUG: html->pdf conversion?

[Itay Furman]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Alan wrote:

> > I have the same need for my book project, in which I'm writing
> > in a (modified) POD format, and then having to convert to MS-Word
> > and PDF for distribution to various parties.  I too have found the
> > standard converters to be deficient, so I have compromised on
> > this routine that works best:
> > 
> > 	* convert POD to Html using pod2html
> > 	* use Netscape Navigator to save HTML as PS
> > 	  (works much better than the Linux html2ps command itself)
> > 	  I looked to see if Navigator was running an external
> > 	  command to do this conversion, but AFAIK it's doing it
> > 	  internally
> > 	* run ps2pdf
> > 
> > The PDF comes out looking great!
> 

An alternative could be
	* POD to LaTeX using pod2latex
	* LaTeX to PDF using pdflatex.
I'm using latex/pdflatex for sometime, but didn't check
the pod2latex converter (didn't have to, so far).

	Itay