Re: Floss manuals for people with vision impairment
- From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:59:19 -0400
I suggest that you get together with Jamal and Elf to figure out a strategy for
distributing the books in whatever formats are necessary.
cdh
On Mar 31, 2010, at 10:44 AM, Homme, James wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> I'd be glad to convert for people as I have the time.
>
> Jim
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> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Hofstader
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 10:21 AM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Floss manuals for people with vision impairment
>
> 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
>
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