On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 at 22:06, David Schmidt via cctalk
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> I ran the Windows reader over the f29al000.boo file, and the results weren't
> as good as the ones that IBM printed out in 1992 as available on the Internet
> Archive; the main problems I can see is the lack of font support
I ran the Windows reader over the f29al000.boo file, and the results weren't
as good as the ones that IBM printed out in 1992 as available on the Internet
Archive; the main problems I can see is the lack of font support (everything in
my PDF was basically Courier), and most tables were broken
On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 18:48, David Schmidt via cctalk
wrote:
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> I have it running in a Windows NT VM, and it prints to PDF using BullZip
> just fine. Do you want to point to the library you want to convert, and
> I can run this over them?
Thank you!
I found one on the Internet Archive
On 12/11/23 1:00 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Does anyone have any experience with the IBM BookManager format and the
tools to read it?
I've not found any way to open them on a Mac. No joy on Linux yet
either; there's an old unmaintained tool that uses a 32-bit Java app.
I found 2 Windows tools.
Monday, December 11, 2023 9:35 AM
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> On 12/10/23 14:04, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
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> Does anyone have any experience with the IBM BookManager format and the
> tools to read it?
Yes, it’s a
On 12/10/23 14:04, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with the IBM BookManager format and the
> tools to read it?
>
Have you looked at http://kev009.com/wp/projects/boo2pdf/
--chuck
