On 02/03/11 20:43, Dave Park wrote: > I have, a few weeks ago, asked Jan Jones for permission to reprint/reformat > it (whatever she agrees to) so a cleaner copy is available to the community > than the scan that is generally available...
That would be great. I have a really bad scan of this book in PDF format. It's dire. And because the text seems to be dot matrix printed, OCR is hopeless. :-( I had planned - sometime - getting the text out somehow and DocBooking it and from that, I can have PDF, HTML, DOC, DOCX, ODT, etc - all from the same source file. (EPub as well and Man pages if I like!) Obviously the format would change from the current book, but the print would be better and so would the listings etc. However, if anyone extracts the text with a better OCR that I've got (Abbey Fine Reader Pro Version 8 - if I remember correctly!) and is willing to share, I'll do the conversion to DocBook XML. Cheers, Norman. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
