HTMLDOC
HTMLDOC | |
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Stable release | 1.8.27.1
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Preview release | 1.9 r1571
/ 5 September 2008 |
Operating system | Windows 200+, MacOS X 10.4+, Linux 2.4+, Solaris 8+ |
License | commercial (binaries) GNU GPL (source, limited features) |
Website | http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/ (commercial) http://www.htmldoc.org/ (open source) |
HTMLDOC is a commercially-developed open-source program that converts HTML web pages and files to indexed HTML, PostScript, and PDF files, complete with a table-of-contents and (in the current development snapshot) index. HTMLDOC can be used from the command-line, a simple GUI, or from a web server.
Features and limitations
HTMLDOC supports most of HTML 3.2 with some elements of HTML 4.01. Styles are not supported.[1][2] The following character sets are supported: Windows-874, Windows-1250, Windows-1251, Windows-1252, Windows-1253, Windows-1255, Windows-1256, Windows-1257, Windows-1258, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-14, ISO-8859-15, KOI8-R; UTF-8 is partially supported (no support for CJK and Arabic characters). Notably, support for ISO-8859-13 is missing.[3]
Versions
Open-source and commercial versions have equal capabilities. Commercial versions additionally have graphical and web server interface, and come with technical support.[4]
License and availability
Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Precompiled binary files (ready to install and run) are offered only as part of package together with support for a fee, only source code is available for free from the open source site (although it is legal to compile them and distribute the program, various versions can be found on the internet).