On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:59:09 +0100, Bernd Oppolzer <[email protected]> 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 old "ILRWIN" product will let you print an entire book, but I think its a16 bit application.. So:- 1. Find a machine with a 32-bit copy of Windows installed and the 16-bit DVM installed. <If you only have 64-bit windows there is a modified wine which will let you run 16-bit app in 64-bit windows here:- https://github.com/otya128/winevdm/releases/tag/v0.8.0 > 2. Find an old documentation CD or similar with the old "Book Manager Read for Windows". I found a copy on the PCOMMS 5.4 CD in the \win\install\ilrwin folder. 3. Open the book and print using a PDF print driver. Microsoft include one with recent Windows. FOXIT PDF viewer has one for older windows. I hope this is helpfull Dave >Thanks for all suggestions, >kind regards > >Bernd > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
