.doc to html and pdf conversion with python

[Alexander Klingenstein]

> Is there some reason you really want to convert to PDF first? You can
> get much better HTML right from the Word doc. You'll lose a lot of info
> going from PDF to HTML.

Right now, two reasons: Printing to PDF allows me to create the PDF "for
the web" which means it has a much smaller filesize needed for downloading.
Mainly accomplished with automatic image resizing.

2nd, htmltidy simply doesn't work for the files I get from Word HTML. I need it
to work automagically without intervention and usable by not really PC literate
people:

D:\tmp\pdftohtml>tidy auberer.htm -o aub2.htm
line 1 column 1 - Warning: missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration
line 172 column 70 - Error: <o:p> is not recognized!
line 172 column 70 - Warning: discarding unexpected <o:p>
line 172 column 75 - Warning: discarding unexpected </o:p>
line 176 column 47 - Error: <o:p> is not recognized!
line 176 column 47 - Warning: discarding unexpected <o:p>
line 176 column 52 - Warning: discarding unexpected </o:p>
line 179 column 77 - Error: <o:p> is not recognized!
line 179 column 77 - Warning: discarding unexpected <o:p>
line 179 column 82 - Warning: discarding unexpected </o:p>
line 182 column 55 - Error: <o:p> is not recognized!
line 182 column 55 - Warning: discarding unexpected <o:p>
line 182 column 60 - Warning: discarding unexpected </o:p>
line 185 column 57 - Error: <o:p> is not recognized!
line 185 column 57 - Warning: discarding unexpected <o:p>
line 185 column 62 - Warning: discarding unexpected </o:p>
line 188 column 55 - Error: <o:p> is not recognized!
94 warnings, 38 errors were found! Not all warnings/errors were shown.

This document has errors that must be fixed before
using HTML Tidy to generate a tidied up version.

So far, pdftohtml has worked flawlessly and created much saner HTML output
out of the box than Word 2000
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