🚀 go-pugleaf

Please take this for a spin and let me know the results.
http://ps-2.kev009.com:8081/boo2pdf/

About:
This is a beta of boo2pdf, an IBM BookManager to PDF conversion app &
web service.  I'm currently experimenting with the HTML to PDF
backends and would like feedback with book files I haven't tried.
Once the code is cleaned up, I will dump it on my site.

Motivation:
I have a large collection of old IBM machines and documentation.  I
want this documentation indexed by my own search facilities and Google
for easy retrieval.  PDF is widely read, while BookManager requires
proprietary software and no search engines I know of parse it.

This will probably be useful to Mainframers as well.

Technical details:
I am using the JAR files from IBM SoftCopy Reader for Linux.  I've
decompiled these and written my own main class and and a wrapper
script to take care of setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, Java classpath,
and other such glue code.  I use SoftCopy Reader's API to output HTML
and images from the BookManager files.  I then pass this to htmldoc
(http://www.htmldoc.org/) for PDF conversion.

Known Limitations:
- Currently, internal hyperlinks and headings are not parsed, indexed,
or otherwise handled.
- The Linux SoftCopy Reader does not convert some of the older
embedded image formats.  Possible formats are:  GIF, PNG. JPG, MET,
GDF, WMF.  I'm guessing it is one of the later that does not have a
Linux filter.  You will know an image did not convert by red text
indicating such in your PDF.  I've seen this in a few .boo files from
the early to mid '90s.

The whole app as it stands now is an exercise in inefficiency.  I
think I have enough data to bitbang a clean C implementation but would
need a lot of help in doing so.

Documentation, help, or words of encouragement welcome.  This has been
a fun and interesting project this weekend.