QuickStart

This page lists some common recipes of pdf2htmlEX

First thing first

• It is highly recommended that you install ttfautohint and always add --external-hint-tool=ttfautohint to each of the following recipes. This tools enhances the font rendering for all browsers on Windows.
• Double check you have poppler-data installed, for CJK characters.
• Double check you have run sudo make install, or pdf2htmlEX may not be executed correctly

The simplest case

Suppose you have a PDF file pdf/test.pdf, simply running

pdf2htmlEX pdf/test.pdf

would produce a single HTML file test.html in the current directory.

Advanced

pdf2htmlEX -f 3 -l 5 --fit-width 1024 pdf/test.pdf

would convert only the 3rd, 4th and 5th pages, and fit the page width to 1024 pixels

For publishers

pdf2htmlEX --single-html 0 --dest-dir out pdf/test.pdf

would produce a test.html and accompanying files in the out directory, in this way all the resources (fonts, images, css and javascript) are stored in separated files such that the viewer can take more advantage of browser caches.

For advanced publishers

pdf2htmlEX --single-html 0 --split-pages 1 --dest-dir out pdf/test.pdf

would do something similar above, except for there is no test.html, but a series of files names as test0.page, test1.page and so on. Each .page file contains the a <div> element corresponding to a page, which gives the publisher full control. In this way a publisher can organize the pages as they like, and they can also implement lazy loading for pages.