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I'm just starting to investigate using latex to generate an ebook with arabic snippets embedded in it, and I'm using the following simple document:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{arabtex}
\usepackage{utf8}
\begin{document}

Hello world

\setcode{utf8}
\begin{arabtext}
السَلامُ عَليكم
\end{arabtext}

Goodbye World!

\end{document}

Here's the output with pdflatex:

pdflatex output

When I try converting to html, here is the garbled output:

htlatex output

Generated HTML source:

<!--l. 7--><p class="noindent" >Hello world
                                                        <span 
class="xnsh-14"></span><span 
class="xnsh-14">J</span><!--l. 13--><p class="indent" >
<span 
class="xnsh-14"></span><span 
class="xnsh-14"></span><!--l. 13--><p class="indent" >
<span 
class="xnsh-14"></span><span 
class="xnsh-14"></span> <!--l. 13--><p class="indent" >
   <span 
class="xnsh-14"></span> <span 
class="xnsh-14"></span><span 
class="xnsh-14">C</span> <!--l. 13--><p class="indent" >
      <span 
class="xnsh-14"></span> <span 
class="xnsh-14"></span><span 
class="xnsh-14">@</span>
<!--l. 16--><p class="indent" >   Goodbye World!

What I want is to render the arabic as an image (that looks like the pdf-rendered version) and have that image in the html source. Something like:

<span>Hello world</span>
<img src="foo.png" />
<span>Goodbye World!</span>

What's the best way to tackle this issue? I'm completely new to latex but don't mind if the solution requires some programming for pre-processing on my end.

Abdullah Jibaly
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It is quite easy to produce images with content of any environment. Any TeX content can be converted to image with \Picture+ ... \EndPicture commands, so we only need to configure arabtext environment to use these commands. Save following code as arab.cfg:

\Preamble{xhtml}
\ConfigureEnv{arabtext}{\HCode{<div class="arabtext">}\Picture+{}}{\EndPicture\HCode{</div>}}{}{}
\Css{.arabtext{text-align:right;}}
\begin{document}
\EndPreamble

This code will create <div class="arabtext"> element and all content of the environment is converted to image. The image is then aligned to the right using CSS.

Compile with 

htlatex filename arab

The result:

enter image description here

michal.h21
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  • Thanks, this is super helpful. The only issue I have is the image resolution seems to be very low, how can I get a higher resolution image generated from the \Picture+ command? – Abdullah Jibaly Jul 03 '15 at 12:06
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    @AbdullahJibaly see http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/43801/2891 for image resolution settings – michal.h21 Jul 03 '15 at 13:08