I blogged Copying pages out of PDF files to make mini books. This uses pdftk package <https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/> on Linux to extract pages from pdf - and appending pdf documents into a big document.
On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 at 21:19, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > AFAIK, IBM used the BookManager BUILD tag set, which is a superset of > BookMaster. Note that the PC versions of BookManager BUILD were totally > different and did not support Script input. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf > of Roger Bolan [[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 3, 2023 6:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: BookManager > > The BookManager format (on z/OS at least) is a special output format from > the DCF (Document Composition Facility) SCRIPT command. With OS/390 > Softcopy Print you could print from the BookManager books but I never > thought the results were really great. If you have the original source > text which will be in BookMaster, Starter GML, or just Script commands > format, I would start from there. > > If it were me, and I had the original source for the documents I would > reformat them with DCF using the BookMaster profile and macro library (if > you still have it around), or the Starter Set GML profile and macro > library. I would output to a DEV(AFPA) or DEV(AFP2A) format and then use > the afpxpdf transform that comes with the "IBM Print Transforms from > AFP" product that works with the Infoprint Server component of z/OS to > transform the AFP format to PDF. > > If going from the BookManager format is your only option, the results are > going to be not as nice and more work. If you can only convert a topic at > a time to PDF then maybe you could assemble them back into a PDF book with > Adobe Acrobat. I don't have any experience with that. > --Roger > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 2:04 PM Dave Wade <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fotya128%2Fwinevdm%2Freleases%2Ftag%2Fv0.8.0&data=05%7C01%7Csmetz3%40gmu.edu%7C6943f52e36c842e5e10208db1c423d12%7C9e857255df574c47a0c00546460380cb%7C0%7C0%7C638134843053542272%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=54C8LC4IRUycWvMyCj5MjYxozYd%2F5U9fNZUmPJ%2BB%2BTk%3D&reserved=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 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
