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Re: Announcing boo2pdf for IBM BookManager files

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From: Michael Kraemer
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:56
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Kevin Bowling schrieb:
> 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. 

Much appreciated.

> 
> The whole app as it stands now is an exercise in inefficiency.  I
> think I have enough data to bitbang a clean C implementation 

That would be even more appreciated.
I'd prefer a lean-and-mean command line utility in plain C
over the Java and Linux-only bloat.

> but would
> need a lot of help in doing so.

Seems nobody knows more about that than you :-)
How about a public description of the boo-format,
now that you've reverse-engineered it?
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From: Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer@gsi.de>
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Subject: Re: Announcing boo2pdf for IBM BookManager files
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