Re: Floss manuals for people with vision impairment
- From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:20:59 -0400
Isn't there a tool somewhere that converts PDF to html?
I don't want to ask the Floss people to do anything much beyond sending us
their books.
cdh
On Mar 30, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Jared Wright wrote:
> Seconding Sina, I know they said PDF is easier, but if they could produce
> HTML editions without too much inconvenience it'd be fantastic.
>
> Jared
>
> On 3/30/2010 3:53 PM, Chris Hofstader wrote:
>>
>> 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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