Lightweight PDF viewer?

I don't known why pdf exist(html is not enought?why? ok for printing... :| ), but ok we might find a way to get this thing back to a format that is easy to edit and look the source code, the convertion to the HTML.

First we need to say thanks to xpdf authors that have started developing nice tools, not just a viewer.And, later we might say thanks to the new tool that a KDE developer is maintaining at the poppler.freedesktop.org, thats a library to replace the "hacks" some people do using the xpdf to add support to the pdf file format to their apps.As stated, when something must be fixed, we just fix the library.

That's more than a library, take a look at what the source can produce, you will see a nicely done tool that i hope they continue improving it, that one is >>> pdftohtml <<<.

A moment for a smile ;)

Continuing...

That tool has nice parameters that you can put to get good results, the -c to generate complex html documents, a feature for exchanging pdf links by html links, if you want skip the images you can specify the -i parameter, output hidden text and other common parameters like ones to specify the owner and the password, well what i have to say, a great tool, even i'm not using KDE(i say 100%) im eating a slice of the cake that developers are producing.

If i find tools related to html convertion, sure i will post here.

Now we almost have a nice lightweight desktop, but some readers get books in CHM file format.

That's not a problem.

Do you want extract the HTML from it?

Next post.

;)