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Alexander Turcic · 02-09-2007, 03:13 PM

OK, I am back to htmldoc (and possibly LaTeX in the future - when I have more free time to invest). With html2ps I found the following limitations:

hyperlinks converted with html2ps and gs (or ps2pdf) are not working in the PDF viewer of the Sony Reader.
very hard to read code, makes it difficult to customize it

On the other hand, htmldoc suffers from very limited styling capabilities and from the fact, that long links or words get truncated at the end of a line. Also, html2ps supports auto-hypenation, which is quite nice, but not supported by htmldoc. Still, the fact that internal hyperlinks with html2ps didn't seem work for the Reader was a killer for me.

Here I have a new version of the newsletter for you to try. This time I added more text formatting and also a few small tweaks as suggested by others in this thread. Inline images *are* included, and I am not sure if we should do this in the final version of the newsletter, as PDF files with images tend to become quite big. Here are the download links:

Sony Reader version: https://www.mobileread.com/newsletter-sony.pdf
iLiad version: https://www.mobileread.com/newsletter-iliad.pdf

Comments are appreciated!

02-09-2007, 03:13 PM	#45
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,175 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	OK, I am back to htmldoc (and possibly LaTeX in the future - when I have more free time to invest). With html2ps I found the following limitations: hyperlinks converted with html2ps and gs (or ps2pdf) are not working in the PDF viewer of the Sony Reader. very hard to read code, makes it difficult to customize it On the other hand, htmldoc suffers from very limited styling capabilities and from the fact, that long links or words get truncated at the end of a line. Also, html2ps supports auto-hypenation, which is quite nice, but not supported by htmldoc. Still, the fact that internal hyperlinks with html2ps didn't seem work for the Reader was a killer for me. Here I have a new version of the newsletter for you to try. This time I added more text formatting and also a few small tweaks as suggested by others in this thread. Inline images are included, and I am not sure if we should do this in the final version of the newsletter, as PDF files with images tend to become quite big. Here are the download links: Sony Reader version: https://www.mobileread.com/newsletter-sony.pdf iLiad version: https://www.mobileread.com/newsletter-iliad.pdf Comments are appreciated!