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Article #1593Re: Announcing boo2pdf for IBM BookManager files
From: Michael Kraemer
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:22
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:22
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In article <g9SdnRg5w_PaSX_XnZ2dnUVZ_oxi4p2d@earthlink.com>, Tom Liotta <tliotta@earthlink.net> writes: > > 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...) :-) > PDF readers (not necessarily Adobe's) exist for almost all platforms on this planets. Can the same be said for BookManager? I don't want to be forced to use a BillyBox just to read AIX docs. Better yet if manuals came in HTML, the ancient pre-HTML InfoExploder wasn't that bad at all, just a bit proprietary.
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X-Google-Thread: 78814bee4e,655745cc2f3a69c9 X-Google-Attributes: gid78814bee4e,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tu-darmstadt.de!biops5a!kraemer From: m.kraemer@gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.unix.aix,comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,bit.listserv.ibm-main Subject: Re: Announcing boo2pdf for IBM BookManager files Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt Lines: 18 Sender: kraemer@biops5a (Michael Kraemer) Message-ID: <hbuo1c$pgr$1@lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de> References: <c6acc287-cbf2-4438-bb9e-86ae354b68ee@d34g2000vbm.googlegroups.com> <hbjmv8$k7h$03$1@news.t-online.com> <5bd0d923-9ebd-4e92-9629-a08e7e64ca31@r36g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> <faa0580e-be84-4d43-ba0b-6ca549e90ede@g1g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> <g9SdnRg5w_PaSX_XnZ2dnUVZ_oxi4p2d@earthlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: biops5a.gsi.de X-Trace: lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de 1256383341 26139 140.181.82.44 (24 Oct 2009 11:22:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.tu-darmstadt.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:22:21 +0000 (UTC)