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Old 01-22-2013, 04:22 PM   #1
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Any plans to upgrade pdftohtml.exe

While trying to do convertion from a pdf, i did came accross lot's of the listed elements.
Aditionnal searches make me realize that a portion of the heartbeat of that translation rely on pdftohtml release 0.36 from 24 june 2003. This was relying on an pretty old version of some of the underlying xpdf lib.
While further searching i found someone published a modified version of source claiming to fix the paragraph issue
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Programs/Pdftohtml/index.html .

Still this sounds to rely on an poppler 0.8 version while now they seams to be at 0.22 .
Did anyone had a chance to look at those, are there any plan to repackage and build this pdftohtml with main latest library to have the benefits of their evolution, the one claimed for line break and paragraph but likely others. ..
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The version of pdftohtml in calibre comes from the latest release of poppler.
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Old 01-23-2013, 02:42 AM   #3
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Ok thanks then it likley means that the person modified the original source of pdftohml.

Will have further look after work but sounds that /HtmlOutputDev.cc
is where some changes occurs with introduction of reflow to better handle the paragraph and <br> generations.
// Heuristic: if the last character in str1 is a hyphen,
// turn off addNewline. This will "glue" hyphenated words
// that have been split over multiple lines.
if (reFlow && str1->text[str1->len -1] == '-') {
addNewline=0;
// Also remove the hyphen
str1->len--;
str1->htext->del(str1->htext->getLength() - 1, 1);
}

//printf("coalesce %d %d %f? ", str1->dir, str2->dir, d);

// Is str2 a new paragraph?
if (nextLine && (
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While further searching i found someone published a modified version of source claiming to fix the paragraph issue
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Programs/Pdftohtml/index.html . ..
Interesting, but the "paragraph issue" described does not exist in calibre. The version of poppler referred to was 0.8.3 and it looks like the changes were added in v0.8.5 and the latest version 0.22 is 73 versions removed from 0.8.5.

I think it is safe to say the changes have long ago been incorporated into calibre.
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Old 01-23-2013, 03:25 PM   #5
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Let go back to orign. Reason of the question isn't to say or bargain on version but trying to fix an issue. Also share some research result if it could benefit other.

I have a pdf file that i wanted to translate into epub to optimize reading.
I face 3 issues and some additionnal minor one.
2 can be fixed though regexp replacement rules, many minor are handled pretty well throught the caliber heuristic mode.

Unfortunately the paragraph issue does exist .
That is why i started some hypothesis and direction, but if the creator of the solution state he build with latest version it means investigation of resolution is somewhere else.

That is why i made the second post, as it sounds the changes isn't in the in depth of the library but rather in another file of the pdftohtml itself which hasn't been changed for a long time.

The paragraph issue mention in the article does exist for me and if i used the pdf of that article the output goes into the element below.
you will see that each end of visual line as a <br> but in reality the paragraph end is later. So i believe this is confirming calibre process same way, and as such if someone made some improvment could be beneficial to have a look....
Now i'm a newbie to all that, but truely the end result could be improved and if that is the solution ...

I don't have a developper worstation, neither a microsoft compiler , i started to download cygwin, gcc, several make imake and cmake, but sounds this is not very productive for the number of files + needs to identify the dependencies lib.


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