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What alternative do you have? Word file? PDF is the only widely supported format can guarantee accurate reprint.

by temp8964 5y ago

miohtama 5y ago
Are papers printed anymore? HTML for text. SVGs for diagrams. Equations can be exported as images if needed.
- codeviking 5y ago
  That's the idea! If all goes well we won't need this software anymore. In a best case scenario the publishers start accepting HTML, and gone are the days of having to convert PDFs to something better...!
  - temp8964 5y ago
    How do you define pages in HTML?
    - codeviking 5y ago
      We don't. We extract the content and present it as a single document. Page anchors can be used for navigating between sections. We present a table of contents that makes this easy. For instance: https://papertohtml.org/paper?id=6f9fc51102cf49bff4f4e2b336739a45f8389c80#section-body-1 https://papertohtml.org/paper?id=6f9fc51102cf49bff4f4e2b3367...
      - john-doe 5y ago
        Great initiative, HTML is the way to go! It would be great if you could add some basic CSS rules for print? Right now navigation elements are needlessly repeated on each page, obscuring the content. Also, you forgot to include bold and italics webfonts, so you have faux-styles for all headings and emphasis.
- radarsat1 5y ago
  > Are papers printed anymore? You know what, they are. I like print format for reading purposes, even if it's on my epaper tablet. The other day when I took a train for 8 hours, I printed out several papers to read on my b&w laserjet. And it's more difficult to read diagrams these days because people make them all in colour, sometimes in ways that are very difficult to read when it's converted to b&w. I find it a real tragedy that all these efforts to turn papers into dynamic content, which I wholeheartedly applaud, ignore the still very relevant use case of printing. Every preview mechanism for camera-ready papers should include a b&w print-preview mode. The other advantage of PDF is that "page count" still means something. There's a reason journals limit page count, and it's not because it adds a few kbs to the download. It's because long-winded papers that don't get to the point need editing.
nailer 5y ago
HTML. As long as the information is preserved, the layout is not significant and actively harms viewing the content on many devices. Here's the output of this tool on this PDF - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.00031.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.00031.pdf - content is preserved, but text is readable: https://imgur.com/a/EPCaWxP https://imgur.com/a/EPCaWxP

What alternative do you have? Word file? PDF is the only widely supported format can guarantee accurate reprint.

miohtama 5y ago

Are papers printed anymore? HTML for text. SVGs for diagrams. Equations can be exported as images if needed.

codeviking 5y ago
That's the idea! If all goes well we won't need this software anymore. In a best case scenario the publishers start accepting HTML, and gone are the days of having to convert PDFs to something better...!
- temp8964 5y ago
  How do you define pages in HTML?
  - codeviking 5y ago
    We don't. We extract the content and present it as a single document. Page anchors can be used for navigating between sections. We present a table of contents that makes this easy. For instance: https://papertohtml.org/paper?id=6f9fc51102cf49bff4f4e2b336739a45f8389c80#section-body-1 https://papertohtml.org/paper?id=6f9fc51102cf49bff4f4e2b3367...
    - john-doe 5y ago
      Great initiative, HTML is the way to go! It would be great if you could add some basic CSS rules for print? Right now navigation elements are needlessly repeated on each page, obscuring the content. Also, you forgot to include bold and italics webfonts, so you have faux-styles for all headings and emphasis.
radarsat1 5y ago
> Are papers printed anymore? You know what, they are. I like print format for reading purposes, even if it's on my epaper tablet. The other day when I took a train for 8 hours, I printed out several papers to read on my b&w laserjet. And it's more difficult to read diagrams these days because people make them all in colour, sometimes in ways that are very difficult to read when it's converted to b&w. I find it a real tragedy that all these efforts to turn papers into dynamic content, which I wholeheartedly applaud, ignore the still very relevant use case of printing. Every preview mechanism for camera-ready papers should include a b&w print-preview mode. The other advantage of PDF is that "page count" still means something. There's a reason journals limit page count, and it's not because it adds a few kbs to the download. It's because long-winded papers that don't get to the point need editing.

nailer 5y ago

HTML. As long as the information is preserved, the layout is not significant and actively harms viewing the content on many devices. Here's the output of this tool on this PDF - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.00031.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.00031.pdf - content is preserved, but text is readable: https://imgur.com/a/EPCaWxP https://imgur.com/a/EPCaWxP