On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 09:33:14PM -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Fri, 8 Jan 2010 21:05:00 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > Only tangentially on topic, at best...
> >
> > Given a pile of html files, comprising chapters of a book, with a single
> > html file that serves as a table of contents to the group, how would I
> > turn the entire book into a single PDF?
> >
> > I can't think of a way to do that, all I can come up with would result
> > in a pile of PDFs, one per html. But there's gotta be a better way.
> >
> > Suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance!
> >
> > (doing this on Linux, of course, which makes it slightly on topic.)
>
> Hmmm. How did you come to have the book chapters in HTML? If you
Books downloaded from the Baen Free Library. I could go back and get
the .rtf file and export that as PDF from OOo, but I'm curious to see
if I can manage it without having to do that (you know, sort of for
fun/educational purposes.)
> really wrote the book in HTML (?!?), then one way to go would be to
> convert the HTML to LaTeX somehow. (Maybe using xslt or something.)
> The use the index html file to create a main LaTeX file that would
> \include{} each chapter, then run it through pdflatex. Presto, one big
> PDF file. And it will look 1000x better than the HTML will every look.
>
> >
> > Fred
>
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