Re: Floss manuals for people with vision impairment
- From: Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:53:29 -0700
Chris, just FYI, the makePDF icon on the site doesn't really work.
But, folks, the view/print converts to html very nicely.
On 3/31/10, Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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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