GraphInside

By Swobodin
http://swobodin.fedora-tn.org

A Perl script to integrate graphics into a HTML file. I coded it in order to send a one-full-piece-html document to some friends who don't know how to use compress/uncompress (they are not programmers after all).

Requirements

• Perl (http://perl.org).
• Perl Libraries:
• HTML::TokeParser, Comes with HTML::Parser package (http://search.cpan.org/search?query=HTML%3A%3AParser).
• MIME::Base64 (http://search.cpan.org/search?query=MIME%3A%3ABase64).

Usage

./GraphInside.pl input_file.html output_file.html

Features

• Handles HTML and XHTML documents.
• Recognizes GIF, PNG and JPEG graphics.
• Parses full path image files.
• Compatible with standards (depends on the original document).

Browser Compatibility

• Netscape and other Gecko browsers (Mozilla, Firefox, Epiphany, Galeon).
• Nvu (can load grapics!).
• Konqueror.
• w3m (Yeah! The very powerful text based browser; set your screen to vga 0x317 mode and it will load images ).
• Opera (Doesn't support encoded GIF).

***Doesn't work with***

• Amaya.
• Dillo.
• Other text based browsers (lynx, elinks, ...).
• Some people told me that Exploder fails to display images. I don't know what program they are talking about  .

Bugs

• The script doesn't integrate remote images.
• JavaScript, CSS, HTML frames and other media cannot be joined.
• Try to not write a picture's filename, because the script will convert it too!

License

(proudly) GNU/GPL