HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the standard markup language used to create web pages. HTML is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets.
It’s safe to say that if someone designed fonts from scratch today they’d be very different on the inside. As with many technologies, the formats have evolved to allow for backwards compatibility and new requirements in ways which make them a bit, well, weird. What’s weird with fonts on the web? Modern web fonts contain…
One of my favorite parts of our trip to JavaOne is the chance to arrive early and visit lots of people. JavaOne starts on Sunday 25th October, so I will arrive in San Francisco for the week before, flying in on 20th October from the UK. San Francisco sits at the the centre of Silicon Valley,…
WOFF 2.0 is working its way towards being a standard recommended by the W3C, so it seems like a good time to look at the WOFF format and where it’s headed. The Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is a font wrapper format designed to cut font sizes for quicker loading over the internet and lower…
As the developers of a PDF to HTML5 Conversion tool (JPDF2HTML5), one of the topics that we regularly get asked about is if we are able to extend the converter to convert PDF to EPUB. The problem with this task is that PDF file format has a fixed layout, whereas the EPUB file format is…
There are several ways that you can deal with text and fonts in PDF files when converting to HTML5. Here are there are the top 3 ways and how they stack up against each other: Convert PDF fonts to web fonts and draw real, selectable text Convert PDF fonts to shapes and draw text as…
