Portable Document Format Reference Manual Version 1.1

Makeing pdfs with Gostscript

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See also:

• http://view.samurajdata.se/ Online PDF viewer+
• http://www.koivi.com/fill-pdf-form-fields/ Filling out the fields in a pdf from an HTML form+
• http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/ GNU pdf to html converter+
• http://www.pdf995.com Based on several GNU projects. Impressive list of abilities.+
• http://www.ghostscript.com/ THE program for PDFs. GNU versions available.
• Ambia Corporation RTF output from the free Adobe Reader
• PDF Corner
• Zeon
• http://gohtm.com/ For a web based conversion (free) service PDF->HTML (uses CSS to retain almost all formating)
  

  after:
  /* text positioning information */
  add:
  .psp{position:absolute;top:15px;left:101px;width:92px;}
  and after:
  
  add:
  <45> 
  
  

• http://access.adobe.com/simple_form.html Adobe's PDF->HTML converter. Retains only basic formatting (like Bold, Italic, etc...)
• lhttp://www.archisoftint.com/logiciels/recr_us.htm $60 PDF-HTML converter. Retains formatting and graphics and does NOT require Acrobat.
• http://www.ra.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/%7Egosho/pdftohtml/index.html Open source PDF-HTML. Retains formatting and graphics and does NOT require Acrobat. Windows (and other) binarys free to download!
• http://www.intrapdf.com $50 PDF-HTML converter. Retains formatting and graphics and does NOT require Acrobat.

Different browsers print the same pdf in different ways. Chrome will strip any readable text out of the print job, creating the letters by /drawing/ them rather than using fonts and characters. IE 11 uses fonts, but mungs the text, so that an "A" that looks like an A becomes a "[]" but that still looks like an A. FireFox appears to just use the original text and font. +