SPUG: html->pdf conversion?
Itay Furman
itayf at fhcrc.org
Thu Oct 23 12:30:55 CDT 2003
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
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