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Martin Iturbide:
Hi

I want to recover all the OS/2 Toolkit documents for EDM/2, since the links to "http://cyberkinetica.homeunix.net" are now dead.

So, I want to ask permission to IBM to republish, but first I need to convert INF files to PDF format, because nobody can read INF file (with the exception of us). Plus I think that PDF will be a better format to put on the web since it can be indexed by search engines, etc.

What do you recommend me to convert the INF OS/2 Toolkit documents to PDF? or does someone has already converted (maybe I missed that)?

I tried INF2HTML which is good, but I need to go to the next step and convert it to PDF.

Regards

Dave Yeo:
if you've already converted to HTML, just load it in Firefox and print it to a PDF. (print to file with a PDF extension).
The INF format is being used more and more in the open source world with the preferred viewer being DocView,  part of free pascal. http://sourceforge.net/projects/fpgui/files/fpGUI/1.2/

Andy Willis:
If you have HTML, why not use it instead of PDF?  I personally would have HTML on the web and the INF for download.

muffetta:

--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on September 29, 2014, 06:22:45 pm ---Hi

I want to recover all the OS/2 Toolkit documents for EDM/2, since the links to "http://cyberkinetica.homeunix.net" are now dead.

So, I want to ask permission to IBM to republish, but first I need to convert INF files to PDF format, because nobody can read INF file (with the exception of us). Plus I think that PDF will be a better format to put on the web since it can be indexed by search engines, etc.

What do you recommend me to convert the INF OS/2 Toolkit documents to PDF? or does someone has already converted (maybe I missed that)?

I tried INF2HTML which is good, but I need to go to the next step and convert it to PDF.

Regards

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I proposed the same weeks ago...but surely we need IBM permission.
--- Quote from: Andy Willis on September 29, 2014, 07:37:28 pm ---If you have HTML, why not use it instead of PDF?  I personally would have HTML on the web and the INF for download.

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Why could not provide both html/pdf, just like The VOICE Newsletter (html/inf)? About, we could also resurrect something similar.

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on September 29, 2014, 07:31:35 pm ---if you've already converted to HTML, just load it in Firefox and print it to a PDF....

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Yes, this a right way, Dave. Last year i made vx-rexx programming guide tutorial exporting inf/hlp from NewView into .ipf, then, using VyperHelp (or Hiperwise), converted ipf to html, and at the end, made a pdf using htmldoc and htmltopdf.

Martin Iturbide:

--- Quote from: Andy Willis on September 29, 2014, 07:37:28 pm ---If you have HTML, why not use it instead of PDF?  I personally would have HTML on the web and the INF for download.

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Hi Andi. 

I prefer to send the IBM lawyers a pack of PDF files. If I send them some HTML files it may get stuck there, since they will need to unzip it, find the index.html, and open it from there.  On this case I prefer PDF.

After the approval is does not matter if I post it on HTML or PDF.

Regards

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