Re: Floss manuals for people with vision impairment
- From: Chris Hofstader <cdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:57:23 -0400
Oh. I hadn't tried it yet. As I said, a lot of stuff is happening very fast so
I'm not checking up on everything right away.
On Mar 31, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Jackie McBride wrote:
> 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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>>
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