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Unfeatures

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Lu Wang edited this page Jun 17, 2013 · 6 revisions

Unfeatures are those not included intendedly. For example, you may not expect a JPG-to-PNG conversion tool would be able to retouch the images for you.

pdf2htmlEX is also a conversion tool, the target is to convert a PDF file into a Hi-Fi HTML file. Below there are a few features listed, which are either "won't be included" or "which I won't implement". Hopefully these will help shaping the scope of pdf2htmlEX.

PDF manipulation and optimization

If something can be done by a PDF optimization tool, probably pdf2htmlEX won't do that. For example:

  • PDF linearization
  • Font optimization
  • Image optimization

Google pdf manipulation tool for more info.

However, pdf2htmlEX will handle those things caused by the differences between the formats of PDF and HTML, or those generated by pdf2htmlEX. For example:

  • Rasterization of PDF drawings and optimization of the rasterized images.
  • Page scaling
  • Text optimization (merging words etc)

UI

You expect UI features of PDF viewers, but you should not expect UI features of PDF files. Likewise, I will try to define useful JavaScript functions for an easier handling of the contents, but I will not add UI controls (buttons, toolbars) in the HTML output.

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