Sick of popping over to Windows to run my old copy of HTMLDOC over there,
I wondered if the Linux version would produce the same excellent quality
PDF's or fuzzy ones, as pdflatex et. al were doing.
In short, it works great! Without installing any special fonts on my Linux
box, I am now able to produce PDF's that look great when displayed on
Linux or Windows screens - not just hardcopy. Yes, the fonts are limited -
but I only wanted a roman and a helvitica anyway, so I'm OK.
Version 1.8.14 has selectable support for your choice of PDF 1.1,1.2 or
1.3, background images and color. There appear to be special effects -
but without reading the manual yet, I haven't gotten them to work.
Inline images and tables are definitely supported also.
I am still enthusiastic about all the TeX variants and the power that they
provide. But if you are producing simple html pages and want to put them
into PS or PDF form, this is a very easy route that doesn't require you to
learn a whole new system of markup.
HTMLDOC 1.8.14 is available in compressed tar versions of source at
http://www.easysw.com
There are rpm's available, but they are not free at the easysw site, since
selling support is how those folks make money on their GLP'd software.
If you do choose to go the RPM route, make sure you get fltk if you don't
yet have it. I couldn't find an RPM for that, so I ended getting source,
compiling that and using rpm -i --nodeps to force the rpms to run.
Bob Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Trillium Technologies Ent.
General Santos City, Philippines
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