An index.html maker
Author: Fabrizio Pivari

# An index.html maker from PDF, HTML, VRML and other files

## by Fabrizio Pivari

#### version 4.1 1998/02/07

IndexMaker is a PERL script to make an index.html file from PDF files, HTML files, VRML files and other files.
At the moment, it uses

- the /Author field, the first /Title field and the /Subject field in every matched PDF files
- the <TITLE> </TITLE> field and the META Description and Author fields in every matched HTML files
- the Info node field in every matched VRML 1.0 files
- the WorldInfo node field info and title in every matched VRML 2.0 files
- the name of the file in the others

It should work with PERL 4 and 5.

This is the sintax

    usage:
            indexmaker [-options ...] files

    where options include:
        -help                        print out this message
        -verbose                     verbose
        -configure file              default indexmaker.cfg
        -output    file              default index.html

    files:
        with files you can use metacharacters and relative and absolute path name

    example:
        indexmaker *.pdf
        indexmaker -c tests/test.cfg *.pdf
        indexmaker -v */*.html
        indexmaker -o home.htm *.gif *.tiff *.jpeg

In the configuration file (default indexmaker.cfg) there are two fields separated by a colon : (it is possible to change this default in the perl code): the first field is the name of the variable, the second is the value of the variable. This is the list of the variables supported:

- OUTPUT_file (default index.htmt). You can also use -output parameter to change the value of this variable.
- GIF_pdficon this icon is used in the output file
- GIF_getacrobat this icon is used in the output file
- META_AuthorName META information in the output file
- META_AuthorMail META information in the output file
- META_Keywords META information in the output file
- META_Description META information in the output file
- TITLE_title the value of <TITLE>...</TITLE> and <H1>...</H1> fields in the output file

What's new with version 4.1:
- Added the parameter output file (Default index.html)
- Added the parameters for GIF files in indexmaker.cfg (idea of Bertrand Decouty)

History file

Source Code
You can also find the source code at CPAN authors/Fabrizio_Pivari/