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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

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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