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An HTML document can be plain text, and the sorts of documents you're referring to should be. I didn't say I wanted _websites!_ I just want content in a simple
by crabmusket 3y ago
An HTML document can be plain text, and the sorts of documents you're referring to should be. I didn't say I wanted _websites!_ I just want content in a simple text-based format, not an inflexible more-or-less-binary blob.
> I make PDF files all the time with my scanner
In a hypothetical world without PDFs, wouldn't images work just as well for this? It's not like scanners are creating the same typographic layout etc. as a publisher needs to do when they send documents _to_ a printer?
- drwu 3y agoFor the scanned documents, I used to compressing them with jbig2 as one of the post-processing steps. Representing the pages as big images not only takes more space to store/archive, but also increases IO-time for loading the documents.
- m463 3y agoHTML is terrible for mixed media. I have tried to save web pages over the years, and invariably it is a mess. I have some old ones, they were root document plus a directory full of loose gifs and jpegs. I tried .webarchive but nothing can read it but the original browser. Images of pages would be more of the same. You'd probably end up with a bunch of loose gif/jpg/png/tiff filee, one per page, or some semi-supported multi-image file.
- Terretta 3y agoGo a step further and strip the HTML down to rich text down to Markdown and store that. Then you can much more easily theme or site gen your PKB.