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HTMLDOC
Stable release
1.8.27.1
Preview release
1.9 r1571 / 5 September 2008
Written inC, C++
Operating systemWindows 2000+, Mac OS X v10.4+, Linux 2.4+, Solaris 8+
Licensecommercial (binaries)
GNU GPLv2 (source)
Websitehttp://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 1.8.x supports most of HTML 3.2 with some elements of HTML 4.01, with no support for CSS.[1][2] HTMLDOC 1.9.x will support most of HTML 4.01 and CSS1, with some support for selected CSS2.x properties.[3]

HTMLDOC 1.8.x supports 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; you cannot mix characters from different code pages. There is no support for CJK and Arabic characters, and support for ISO-8859-13 is missing.[4] HTMLDOC 1.9.x improves the character set support and includes UTF-8 [5].

Versions

The open-source and commercial versions have equal capabilities. Commercial versions come as binary packages with technical support.[6]

License and availability

Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. Precompiled binary files (ready to install and run) are offered only as part of package together with support for a fee while source code is available for free from the open source site. It is legal to compile the sources and distribute the program, and various versions can be found on the Internet. For example, HTMLDOC is included as part of the Debian Linux operating system.[1]

References