converting a pdf into html (one file to many method)
Here’s an Ubuntu (and other linux/Unix?) tip taken from ehow .
To convert a pdf into navigable html (with images intact), you can use pdftohtml:
E.g.,
pdftohtml -c originalfile.pdf newname_template.html
Converting a book-length pdf using this method gave me a directory full of files, with consecutively numbered html files representing the pages. Names were based on the ‘newname_template’ supplied, as were the png image files. Not the prettiest, but functional, and viewable on devices lacking native pdf-rendering capabilities.
an Ubuntu sources.list with more whistles and bells
I’ve been fiddling around with my sources list, trying to make everything perfect before I sit down to get to work. But I found out that a fellow named Ketil, from Oslo, has limited my procrastination by doing a better job with a consolidated list. His /etc/apt/sources.list is here: http://anotherugly.wordpress.com/my-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-sources-list/
