Hi Trahern, I was going to let this pass, because most people who want HTML output want to set formatting and other things that don't easily get handled automatically. On the Mac it's easy to go the other way and get almost anything into PDF format by using the print command (Command-P) and saving the output as a PDF file via the PDF menu button. However, I realize that I do know a way of converting PDF to HTML that works with VoiceOver: Stanza Desktop is a free application that is meant to work different e-book formats, particularly on Mobile devices like the iPhone and iPod Touch. Since these devices often have incompatible formats, the LexCycle people who make Stanza (as an app for the iPhone) also provided a Desktop app that could convert between all these myriad formats and provide a way of uploading the (non-DRM) e- books from your computer to your iPhone or iPod Touch. However, I just tried this, and I can use Stanza Desktop's File menu to open a PDF file and then use the File menu option to export it as HTML. It's no so good for reading with VoiceOver because these variant ebook formats don't support the same degree of navigation capabilities as you get, for example, with Preview. Incidentally, these navigation quirks on the iPhone and iPod Touch for the Stanza app still currently limit its use for e-book reading on the iPhone and iPod Touch, since you can't set books to just automatically read yet in this app.
Anyway, if you want to try this, go to LexCycle's Stanza download page: http://www.lexcycle.com/download and download the current version for Apple Macintosh. (There's a versions for Microsoft Windows and another link for the iPhone/iPod Touch that will simply take you to the iTunes App Store.) Once you install Stanza Desktop, open your file (Command-O and find your file in the dialog window -- all the FInder shortcuts and navigation commands will work). Select All with Command-A, then navigate to the File menu of the menu bar (VO-M, then press "F"). Arrow down, then press "E" to go to the "Export Book As…" menu option, arrow right to the submenu and press "H" for "HTML" (or arrow down if you want the HTML 4.0 option), then complete the save dialog. I'll note that the Export submenu has an option of MP3 Audiobook, and this feature does work, but not as efficiently or as well as GhostReader or as using an Automator action to generate audio from text would. In the first version that they tried this, your computer entirely locked up as "busy". Unlike the other two methods, you can't control the speaking rate of the output. Also, be aware that this Stanza Desktop software is free, but expires in fixed intervals (something like 3 months), because they keep developing the beta and don't want old versions of the software around to contend with. Good luck. HTH. Needless to say, this won't let you convert any DRM content. Since I'm not familiar with the HTML format output options and only checked that I could open and read the output HTML version file, you'll have to check this out for yourself. Cheers, Esther trahern culver wrote: > hey guys do you know if there are any pdf to html convertrers that > work with v o? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
