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Article #1594Re: Announcing boo2pdf for IBM BookManager files
From: Kevin Bowling
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:01
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:01
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On Oct 24, 7:22 am, m.krae...@gsi.de (Michael Kraemer) wrote: > In article <g9SdnRg5w_PaSX_XnZ2dnUVZ_oxi4...@earthlink.com>, Tom Liotta > > <tlio...@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. I second Michael here. If you don't associate PDF with Adobe Acrobat Reader, it really is a pretty nice format. PDF is a page definition like PostScript (and in some ways an evolution of it), so you get page accurate renderings -- WYSIWYG -- on your printer. For readers, I enjoy Okular on KDE4 or kpdf on KDE3. Gnome has Evince. These are all very light weight and fast. I'm sure there are some nice free readers for Windows as well. Regards, Kevin
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