456148 - A built-in function to load pdf's as html (with images)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 714712

(Core :: Layout, enhancement)

Description

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

When I click a link somewhere and it turns out to be a pdf, I mostly cancel this because pdf's are not nicely to read. 

If I really want to read it, I upload it as an attachment to Gmail and read it as html, but Gmail doesn't display the images.

So a built-in option in the context-menu "Load as html" would be great.
I have not yet found an extension where this reliably worked.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Converting a PDF on the fly to HTML is a hard job, that's why there are commercial utilities on the market to do this. I haven't seen any open source ones yet, but there's a freeware one at <http://www.somepdf.com/some-pdf-to-html-converter.html>. YMMV

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Thanks Jo. I believe I tried already some programs in the past but only the online Adobe tool worked smoothly but it stopped working, like the extension. Also the program you're linking to has difficulties. When I try e.g. this link  http://www.woodfield.nl/download/semin/sem-murale.pdf , download it and convert it to html and open it in a browser window (supposed I really want to do all this only to read contents of a page) I see a very very small font and when I enlarge it I have to scroll horizontally to the left and to the right with every line. I see also text through images.
I always wondered why pdf was invented, because I don't see any advantage over html. :(

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I don't expect this to be implemented in the coming few years; maybe by that time it will be obsoleted by the great new tool in bug 455917, who knows.