diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b103ed6..8faaea5 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -16,28 +16,38 @@ A beautiful demo is worth a thousand words: pdf2htmlEX renders PDF files in HTML, utilizing modern Web technologies, aims to provide an accuracy rendering, while keeping optimized for Web display. -It is optimized for modern web browsers.On Linux/Mac, the generated HTML pages could be as beautiful as PDF files. +It is optimized for modern web browsers. On Linux/Mac, the generated HTML pages could be as beautiful as PDF files. This program is designed for scientific papers with complicate formulas and figures, therefore precise rendering is the #1 concern. But of course general PDF files are also supported. +### Why HTML ? + +HTML, together with CSS and Javascript, is much more open and flexible than PDF. Almost everything can be customized. + - Embedding documents to web pages with consistent theme and behavior + - Cross references to other documents are much easier and intuitive + - More functions to the document with Javascript, e.g. access control, animation, statistics + +Readers can also be benefitted + - Read while downloading + - Plugin-free + ## Features -* Single HTML file output +* Optional single HTML file output * Precise rendering -* Text Selection -* Font embedding & reencoding for Web -* Proper styling (Color, Transformation...) +* Text perserved - you can select & copy & paste +* Proper styling + - Font - extracted and reencoded + - Color + - Transformation * Links -* Optimization for Web * [EXPERIMENTAL] Path drawing with CSS - * Orthogonal lines - * Rectangles - * Linear gradients - -### Objects rendered as images - -* Type 3 fonts -* Non-text object + - Orthogonal lines + - Rectangles + - Linear gradients +* Not fully supported, and rendered as images + - Type 3 fonts + - Non-text object ## Get started @@ -99,12 +109,6 @@ More info can be found on [the pdf2htmlEX page in TeX Wiki](http://oku.edu.mie-u man pdf2htmlEX -### For Geeks - -* Experimental and unsupported - - pdf2htmlEX --process-nontext 0 --css-draw 1 /path/to/foobar.pdf - ## FAQ * [Troubleshooting compilation errors](https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX/wiki/FAQ#wiki-compile)