[Techtalk] Gimp tutorials

[Billie Walsh]

On 10/17/2013 11:05 PM, Maria McKinley wrote:
> The other problem with html is it just isn't that easy to write. I can take
> a document that I write in pretty much any editor, and pretty easily
> convert it to pdf, but there is no easy way to take that same document and
> convert it to html.

I turn PDF's into HTML all the time. [ I just completed a 1,000 page 
book ] My method is not a direct conversion but a multi-step process. 
PDF's are, as near as I can figure a series of graphics linked together, 
kinda-sorta [ simple explanation ]. I have a piece of software that I 
bought for Windows that does an incredible job of converting PDF's to 
document formats, I typically use RTF. This I open into Libre Office. I 
use that to convert to HTML. For very large files I then open that in 
Kate to strip out all the unnecessary HTML BS that Libre Office puts in 
and break the file into segments small enough for Bluefish to handle [ 
Bluefish will choke and puke on a really large file. ] I then open the 
smaller files in Bluefish to add the formatting I want. It really isn't 
as painful as it sounds and doesn't really take that much time. The last 
step is the one that takes the longest. The process retains the basic 
layout of the document as it was in the PDF so the formatting HTML is 
fairly simple most of the time.

In case your interested, this is the 1,000 page book I just finished:

http://freepages.books.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~billie0w/richardson_memorial/index.html

http://tinyurl.com/nfkduo7

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