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That's a non-trivial task. Yes, that's true. I only bring it up b/c if your goal is to turn pdfcrowd into an app that people would pay money for (and I would
by dpapathanasiou 17y ago
That's a non-trivial task.
Yes, that's true.
I only bring it up b/c if your goal is to turn pdfcrowd into an app that people would pay money for (and I would be one of them), solving that problem would go a long way towards achieving it.
- latortuga 17y agoThere already many apps and pieces of software that charge for the feature he already has so I don't see why it is a requirement for him to monetize. It definitely would be an easy feature to charge for but I think what he has already has potential.
- thepsi 17y agoSolving it perfect is non-trivial (I've known entire PhDs to be spent working on a small subset of the problem). There are a number of products/projects that solve it to some extent (techniques include absolute positioning & making sweeping assumptions about what constitutes a paragraph) - would this be enough for you to consider paying for, given that their assumptions/workarounds might produce HTML files that aren't quite to your 'taste'?
- brandnewlow 17y agoTotal noob question, couldn't you programmatically capture a browsershot and then convert that into a PDF? HTML -> png seems to have been figured out. Is .png -> pdf that hard to do?
- vibhavs 17y agoNo, .png to .pdf is not difficult. I believe dpapathanasiou's suggestion is not to blindly convert a pdf into html file with one giant image file of the pdf. Instead, he wants to create an html document that maintains the same content and layout from the pdf.
- brandnewlow 17y agoD'Oh! Got myself mixed up there a bit.