Hi folks,

Debian 50

I need a simple html editor to edit .htlm files converted from .pdf files. Because some icons are converted to strange codes. I don't expect running EMCS to do this simple job. Please advise.

Can I run Text Editor to do the job? If YES, then how?

TIA

B.R.
satimis

nvu, bluefish, quanta+. theres three to get you started

If you are overwhelmed with Quanta, try Kate. Kate is basically the editor window of Quanta. Quanta offers more features like project management and upload management.

jlinkels

Hi murankar and jlinkels,


Thanks for your advice.

I have bluefish and kompozer running here. Actually what I need is to convert .pdf files (e-document) to .html files for easy reading. So I can read forward and backward with a few clicks. That is my purpose, nothing else.

The aforementioned software can convert .pdf to .html. But the icons, such as bullet, arrow, etc., are converted to codes. I need changing the codes back to icons which I can but have to do it manually, one by one.

"Find & Replace" can't work. Because I can't insert their icons on the "Find & Replace" window. Therefore it will take me lengthy time completing the correction. Furthermore I have more than 10 .pdf files to be converted to .html files. Each document has more than 30 pages. That is my background story.


B.R.

Do a bash script with sed doing the job for you. There must be some kind of pattern usable for scripting.

Hi Elv13,


Thanks for your advice.

Could you please shed me more detail on running sed command

E.G.
After converting .pdf to .html

bullet converted to •

arrow converted to !

" (invert comma) converted to �

etc.


TIA


B.R.
satimis

there are special codes you can use for meta characters such as:

= ,;
= !
end each of those special numbers with an ";". I left it off so it does not get converted here.
and so on.

if that is what you need then find and replace may work. let us know if that might work for you.

Bluefish, anjuta, and many others if you need a gui. I generally use nano on the cli.

It should be scriptable.

$ egrep -r -i "stuff" ./*.html

to find what has "stuff".

$ cat file.html | sed 's/stuff/newstuff/' | tee newfile.html

Always best to keep the original UNTIL you're sure that it did what you "expected" it to do. Although you could just use | more instead of tee. Although a file lets you use an editor with easy / fast scrolling and/or a better font. Is that an O or an 0? An I, l, |, 1 or just my cursor? U or V or W or ||? Bear in mind regular expression aka regex. So any non-alpha's and non-numerics probably need an escape \. But the syntax is 's/old/new/' to swap something for another thing with sed.

That's the last answer I would have predicted in response to someone asking about html editors......

For the OP: I like Bluefish, but I have not tried most of the other options.

Note that OpenOffice can also be used.

Hi Shadow_7,

Thanks for your advice.

Before proceeding further I expect to clarify follows first;

I ran
$ pdftohtml spss.pdf

It generates 3 files;
Reading spsss.html with text editor it display;
Browsing spsss.html it displays;
On running;
$ egrep -r -i "•" spsss.html

no printout


What shall I find? TIA

B.R.
satimis

Hi pixellany,


Thanks for your advice. I'm running OOo 2.4 here. The PDF extension of OOo is only available on version 3.0+
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/node/2587

Therefore I can't make it work here.

B.R.
satimis