Hi !

I have a book in html format, archived into one zip file. Starting from "index.html" there are links to the chapters, from there to sections, etc...

I'd like to make a single pdf so I can annotate it with Okular.

I have found many tools to convert a *single* html page into pdf. But none yet that is also able to follow links between the pages in order to create a single document out of it. It would be nice if the links could be preserved. But getting it all into a neat pdf is really the most important.

Does anyone in here know about a tool/method/way/... to do that ?

Thanks in advance !!!

Jan

well html links are non linear, so whilst it might work in your example, you can't flatten them into a single document like that. Personally I'd look to whip off the header and footer sections of each page and concatenate the outputs to make a single page.

You could always try htmldoc.

I did, but the book has quite a lot of pages. So I am hoping some software could do the same AND follow the links too. Damn...

That's a possibility. But how to specific the page breaks for the final pdf conversion ?

I don't understand, htmldoc can handle as many pages as you give it.

There are even rpm packages for fedora as standard, I don't know about other distros.

It will create links for you, but I don't think it will convert existing links. Each new page gets its own link.

http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/docfiles/3-books.html

Does it keep the links between the pages ? Say a link from chapter 2 to chapter 10 ?

I've just installed locally (I use on a server normally) and the gui is perfect.
Yes it does follow your links within your pages. I tested it with a 3 page set up and from page 3 you can jump back to page 1 or page 2 using an existing html link.

But it's quite picky about style. You must use an H1 heading on each page or it will ignore the page. It uses H1 headings as chapter markers.