In this next-to-last year of the millennium, sbnaran@fermi.ceg.uiuc.edu
(Siemel Naran) wrote in article
<slrn7djf9s.7bb.sbnaran@fermi.ceg.uiuc.edu> in comp.std.c++:
>
>On 28 Feb 1999 21:15:49 GMT, Ron Natalie <ron@sensor.com> wrote:
>
>>My only real gripe is that they disabled cutting and pasting and
>>the conversion from TROFF to PDF was not without problems.
>>It's no where near as nice as the HTML'ized drafts where the
>>links actually work.
>
>The PDF version is also slow for scrolling, and the font hurts my
>eyes.

Adobe offers a free program to convert PDF to HTML. It's called Access
Adobe. See
 http://access.adobe.com/

You can also use a link at that site to HTMLize any PDF document at a
given URL, so you could temporarily put your PDF copy of the standard on
your Web page, convert to HTML, use your browser to save the HTML, and
delete the PDF copy from your Web page.

I've actually done that. The conversion is not terrific, but at least
it's cut-and-pastable, and you can control the font.

Someone posted a while back that he had a program to convert the PDF to
one-page-per-file HTML, with cross references. Perhaps that person could
post again, giving some details?  (Note: I am not asking anyone to post
the output HTML, just the tools that we could use to convert our
individual and legally-acquired PDF copies.)

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