If you had the original source of the documents, you could format to PostScript (DEV(PSA), then convert the PostScript to PDF using Adobe Acrobat or equivalent. You'd need to download the BookMaster fonts.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Roger Bolan Sent: Friday, March 3, 2023 5:51 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
