Re: Floss manuals for people with vision impairment
- From: "Deenadayalan Moodley" <deenadayalan.moodley@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 00:15:42 +0200
Hi all,
There's a website called:
www.pdftoword.com
it allows you to convert a pdf document to a microsoft word document.. This
service handles files upto 10 mb in size.
I hope that helps.
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Hofstader
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 4:20 PM
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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