[OS X TeX] \ifpdf in TeX4ht?

[Victor Ivrii]

On 3/31/07, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de> wrote:
>
> Am 31.03.2007 um 15:23 schrieb Victor Ivrii:
>
> > F.e. on Windows there is a plug-in a(?) allowing to see pdf
> > embedded in html page
>
> That's the same situation as in Mac OS X, or any other operating
> system: no-one (maybe except of BeOS) offers native support for PDF
> in the HTML browser, because the browsers themselves do not implement
> functionality to read and display PDF – they need a plug-in,
> everywhere.

But Windows has this plug-in (or may be activex or how they call it)
while other oOSes do not.

> So it's best to use PNG format – or another HMTL
> supported format like TIFF, GIF, SVG.
>
> PDF is incompatible with latex, i.e. when producing DVI output. And
> this is still the basis from which TeX4ht creates the HTML output.

All these formats (GIF, JPG, ...., SVG) are not latex compatible but
htlatex is smart enough not to touch at least jpg or png but simply to
provide reference to them in the resulting html. So compatibility with
latex is not an issue
>
>
> And scaling of the embedded graphics is needed, the same that pdfTeX
> or whatever applies.
>
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