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From: AMoreira@nine.com (Alberto Moreira)
Subject: Re: Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
Organization: Number 9 Visual
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 10:57:34 -0400
Message-ID: <MPLANET.3247f6d6AMoreira9896ab@news.tiac.net>

In article <3245D69B.763DBAF8@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>, 
paysan@informatik.tu-muenchen.de says...
> Erik Demaine wrote:
> > : aren't there software tools that can convert PostScript into HTML?
> > : if not, someone could make some dough creating such a tool.
> > 
> > Actually, that's pretty much impossible.  If it is possible (I'm not 
familiar
> > with the latest HTML), then it would have to look really ugly.
> 
> To some extent it is possible. Even ps2ascii extractor exists. At least
> you can OCR a ps document, and exctract the unrecognised parts as gif,
> an there's your HTML document. The better solution certainly is to
> convert the document at a higher abstraction layer, e.g. LaTeX or any
> decent word processing format.

There are Latex to HTML converters, I believe there's one at CTAN. A lot 
of people typically write their papers in Latex, and run the output 
through DVIPS to get postscript. Also, many tools used to do pictures 
will generate GIF or JPEG just as readily as they will generate  
postscript. Some people are kind enough to put online both Tex and
Postscript versions of their papers, although pictures are usually
available in postscript. Some people put html versions online too, and 
that's nice because I can read the paper without necessarily downloading 
it. But I'm also seeing more and more files in Adobe Acrobat format, 
specially when they're graphics intensive.


Alberto.



