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Article #1592Re: Announcing boo2pdf for IBM BookManager files
From: Tom Liotta
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:17
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:17
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Kevin Bowling wrote: >> 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? Hardly! I'd dump the .PDFs as quickly as I could convert to BookManager formats -- assuming Reader could read/display them, of course. I've thought the switch to .PDF was the worst step so far in the evolution of manuals. (I understand the resistance to installing BookManager Reader software. It's not like installing Adobe Acrobat Reader...) :-) -- Tom Liotta http://zap.to/tl400
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