The B2H tool was BookMaster source to HTML, not BookManager On Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 11:19 AM Colin Paice <colinpai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a very old B2H package which I think is Rexx based. It was > supported on Windows NT, OS2, VM, OS390 etc, > I think I used to use it. It is mentioned > http://afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.rs/~ivica/b2h.html > Colin > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 18:00, Bernd Oppolzer <bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> > wrote: > > > What is the preferred way to convert BookMgr books to PDF? > > > > My customer has some home-written BookMgr books, which they cannot access > > after the z/OS migration (BookMgr support was dropped with z/OS 2.4). > > > > We managed to transfer the books to Windows (and OS/2, BTW), where we can > > at least look at the books. Now I would like to convert the books to > PDFs. > > But the free Softcopy Reader refuses to print more than one (selected) > > topic > > or ranges of topics; if you try to do this using the print menu > > (selected or range), > > the output is always empty. > > > > Is this a bug - or: is printing larger portions of text not allowed in > > the free version? > > What are the options? > > > > The eMail address book...@us.ibm.com, which is mentioned in the Softcopy > > Reader > > help texts, doesn't exist any more (BTW: the Softcopy Reader is a 2012 > > edition; > > this seems to be the last one available). > > > > Is there a documented API to read the books using a C or REXX program > > and build the PDFs this way? Or build HTML from the books? > > > > Thanks for all suggestions, > > kind regards > > > > Bernd > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
