HTMLDOC

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latest release version = 1.8.27.1
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latest preview version = 1.9 r1571
latest preview date = 5 September 2008
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operating system = Windows 200+, MacOS X 10.4+, Linux 2.4+, Solaris 8+
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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. [ [http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/specs.php Footnote 1—tags supported] ] [ [http://www.htmldoc.org/articles.php?L22+T+P0+Q FAQ Article #22: What level of HTML is supported?] ] 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—cannot mix characters from different code pages, [ [http://www.htmldoc.org/str.php?L162+P0+S0+C0+I0+E0+M1000+Q ] ] no support for CJK and Arabic characters. Notably, support for ISO-8859-13 is missing. [ [http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/specs.php Footnote 2—charsets supported] ]

Versions

Open-source and commercial versions have equal capabilities. Commercial versions additionally have graphical and web server interface, and come with technical support. [ [http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/specs.php Comparison of features] ]

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).

References

External links

* [http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/ Commercial homepage]
* [http://www.htmldoc.org/ Open source homepage]