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Article #1588Re: Announcing boo2pdf for IBM BookManager files
From: Kevin Bowling
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:34
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:34
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On Oct 20, 3:58 am, Arju <arju...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20 Okt., 08:56, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae...@gsi.de> wrote: > > > > > 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? > > This one is really good. Is it possible otherway round? I would like > to convert some pdfs to boo format? That would actually be a lot harder. I assume this would be mostly useful to mainframers?
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