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Install LaTeX2HTML in Windows

Created: May 26, 2018   Last Modified: November 14, 2022   Category: windows, tex   Print this pageBack to Home

Summary

This post contains a guide on how to install LaTeX2HTML in Windows 64-bit OS.

Perl 5.22.4.2205

Download from https://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads.

Netpbm

Install from GNUWin32 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/netpbm.htm

Note: Install to C:\GNUWin32 directory (or any directory such that the name does not contain a blank space)

Ghoscript AFPL 8.54

Download from http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/.

Note: Install to C:\gs directory.

GSView 5.0

Download from http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get50.htm.

LaTeX2HTML

Download from https://github.com/latex2html/latex2html/.

Some notes after installing

  • Add the following to PATH in Windows via Control Panel > System and Security > System > Advanced System Settings > Advanced > Environment Variables ...
C:\GnuWin32\bin;C:\gs\gs8.54\bin
  • Fix error
Unmatched [ in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^[ <-- HERE .\]/ at C:\latex2html\bin/latex2html.bat line 432.

when compile with .latex2html-init. See http://tug.org/pipermail/latex2html/2017-October/003977.html.

  • Use command:
latex2html -tmp C:\Windows\TEMP somefile.tex 

for compilation to avoid the error

'/tmp' not usable as temporary directory.
  • Fix error when using latex2html with option -html_version 3.2,latin2,unicode in Windows
Extension: loading C:\latex2html\versions\latin1.pl
HTML version: loading C:\latex2html\versions\html3_2.pl

 *** processing declarations ***

Resetting image-cacheCannot read .\latin2.tex

See http://tug.org/pipermail/latex2html/2017-October/003985.html or http://tug.org/pipermail/latex2html/2017-October/003988.html.