Does your organization have a lot of files in HTML format that are difficult to share with users or hard to archive? Find out how to convert your HTML documents to PDF and improve the efficiency of your document processes.
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a standard markup language used to create web pages. HTML is written in the form of elements which consist of tags (like <u> </u>), which primarily come in pairs, though can come unpaired as well. A web browser reads HTML documents and composes them into visible web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses them to interpret the content of the page. HTML elements are the foundation of all websites. Almost all organizations today have websites and landing pages, which all require HTML. These websites often contain business-critical information. What happens if a website goes down and that content is irretrievable?
In addition, HTML has changed over time. Significantly.
If you have an old HTML file from years ago and attempt to view it now, you’ll see it looks different.
Want to see it for yourself? Try out the Internet Archive and see how old pages from your favorite web sites render in today’s browsers.
The specification has changed, and the way software vendors have interpreted the specification has changed as well. (Microsoft and Mozilla are less likely to implement their own custom extensions on HTML, but each will implement variations based on the new standard, HTML5.)
Viewing HTML also depends on files that are often elsewhere on the internet and may no longer be available, and therefore represented by empty boxes where images once appeared.
By capturing your HTML in PDF, you can capture the content and appearance as it looks now, today, and for forever.
Adlib accepts HTML as both an input and an output file format: HTML can be converted into PDF and other output file types, and other file types can be converted to HTML as well. With Adlib, organizations can convert their HTML content into PDF as a backup to ensure the content is always available in case of issues with the website.
While not all document conversion programs accept HTML as both an input and output format, Adlib can render HTML files into PDF and a number of other outputs, and can also convert other file types into HTML format, giving users increased file flexibility. Adlib can also convert HTML files to PDF/A, the ISO standard for archiving. PDF/A files have small file sizes so storage isn’t an issue, and the text can be made searchable using OCR software.
Organizations can achieve a number of benefits by converting their HTML documents to PDF with Adlib PDF:
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