Translates pdf documents into html format.Translates pdf files into HTML or XML formats, combined with png images. Supports encrypted pdf files.There is a program called pdftohtml to convert pdf to html file.In ubuntu gutsy this package in bundled with poppler-utils so we need to install this package.
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Internet Explorer Reality
http://www.isolani.co.uk –
"...We're not here to solve Microsoft's problems. Microsoft's solution is for web standards developers to carry the burden of its browser failings. That is unacceptable for us, as web standards developers. Web standards development is browser agnostic. For open standard to flourish, we have to be independent of the browser vendors..."
Read more »Ogg Theora+Vorbis as default for <video> scuttled in HTML5 spec. Who benefits?
http://www.digitalcitizen.info –
"...'Ogg' is a wrapper that ties together 'Theora' encoded video and 'Vorbis' encoded sound. Together, Ogg Theora+Vorbis give users a way to see movies on your computer. Ogg Vorbis+Theora are not known to be encumbered by any patents (the only applicable patent on Theora’s predecessor, called 'VP3', was licensed for everyone to use in any way they want).
Read more »Norway mandates use of open formats: HTML, ODF and PDF
http://virtuelvis.com –
Government, state and regional agencies, authorities and services may also publish in other formats, but they must always publish in one of these formats. The decree is retroactive, and by 2014 all documents published prior to this decree must have been converted and made available in one of the three formats.
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Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5: an outrageous disaster
http://rudd-o.com –
"Nokia and Apple have privately pushed to give Ogg the noose treatment (and so far succeeded) in HTML5. This destroyed all hope of having free (as in freedom) media embedded in HTML5 in an interoperable way..." -- via slashdot http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/11/1339251&from=rss
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Mozilla looks to make video on the Web easier
http://www.linuxworld.com –
"...Firefox and Opera will support a new HTML tag specifically for embedding video in Web pages. [...] If video encoded in Ogg Theora plays directly in the browser..."
Read more »Why Javascript, not Flash? - Ask Zoho
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com –
"I've only just come across this, perhaps the best summary of why using Flash is the wrong way to create Web apps..."
Read more »Does your browser do video?
http://spreadopenmedia.org –
"Those who haven’t left the planet in the last year have at some point heard of HTML 5, the new improved language that will likely power the Web in the coming years. One of the many great features it sports, which will be of interest to free formats enthusiastics, is the multimedia elements: 'video' and 'audio'..."
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Why we need standards support in HTML email
http://www.campaignmonitor.com –
"...This much is clear - arguing about HTML vs plain text or complaining about standards support in email isn't going to get us anywhere. It's time to get off our butts and actually help email client manufacturers to introduce better standards support..."
Read more »Scribe (Back To The Future according to Douglas Crockford?)
http://blog.360.yahoo.com –
JSON is a data interchange format specified by Douglas Crockford, an alternative to XML. So, it seems to me that it's useful to know his point of view about SGML syntax compared to Scrib. Remain to know if the Web would have been different from that which we know if TBL had chosen Scrib instead of SGML for HTML syntax.
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