RE: Floss manuals for people with vision impairment
- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:45:15 -0400
It's just that I've found that converting from PDF into documents such as HTML
often severely breaks down.
Take care,
Sina
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Hofstader
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:18 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Floss manuals for people with vision impairment
I'm going to get the .tar file to Jamal and The Elf. That will contain the
entire catalogue in PDF. From there someone can convert
them into whatever format they find useful.
As a result, I'm not going to mail the PDF of the command line manual but,
rather, I recommend people go to the URL I posted
yesterday and download it as there were too many people who wanted it for me to
send individual emails.
I hope this works for everyone.
cdh
On Mar 30, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Sina Bahram wrote:
> If they can do html as well. That would be just peachy.
>
> Take care,
> Sina
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris
> Hofstader
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 3:53 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Fwd: Floss manuals for people with vision impairment
>
> Hi,
>
> Deborah, the FSF membership coordinator, and I sent an email to the
> person in charge of Floss Manuals, the company that published the
> command line tutorial I mentioned earlier. Adam says that almost all of their
> books use GPL as their license and that he can
provide their entire catalogue in PDF rolled up into a big .tar file. His note
is below.
>
> This is all happening pretty fast so I haven't had the chance to take
> a look at the rest of the books they have but I'd bet that some will interest
> some of you.
>
> If Jamal or Elf want, they can take the entire .tar open it up and put
> as much as they like on their sites. If PDF needs to be converted to text,
> I'm sure that won't be too hard.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>
> From: adam hyde <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> hey Chris and Deborah,
>
> All books from FLOSS Manuals are available under a free license and you
> are welcome to use them as you choose for free as long as the same
> license is maintained (we use the GPL for all books except 3 or 4 which
> are either CC-BY-SA or FDL). We can provide PDF, plain html (each book
> on one page) or odt. Probably for us the PDF is the easiest to provide.
>
> Here is an example of a PDF from us:
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/Ardour/FM_22Mar10.pdf
>
> we can provide you with a tar of all the manuals in pdf if you like...
>
> adam
>
> Founder FLOSS Manuals
> German mobile : + 49 177 4935122
> Email : adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> irc: irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals
>
> "Free manuals for free software"
> http://www.flossmanuals.net/about
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>
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