From: Rudi Blom <rudi.j.blom@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Failing Memory of an Algol Based System from years ago
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:39:43 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMYpm865ojd2zAq-ScSfVNRhYHQL3BKHWwNG7Z53R41geSXdww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
>Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 15:29:11 -0700
>From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
>To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
>Subject: Re: [TUHS] Failing Memory of an Algol Based System from years ago
>Message-ID: <CMM.0.95.0.1552170551.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu>
... snip ...
> http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/RC-4000/
>
>The Web page that comes up gives a directory of the available files,
>and documents the steps needed to produce them. The result is a
>searchable document, with a single page image per PDF page, rather
>than the mixed bitmap scan of 1-up and 2-up pages in the original PDF
>file.
>Despite my 40+ year engagement in the TeX community, I only recently
>learned via the texhax mailing of some PDFTeX internals that allow one
>to construct a file that can retypeset n-up files into 1-up format.
>
>I therefore make this posting in the hope that someone else might be
>encouraged to tackle similar document improvements in the bitsavers.
>archives. Although it takes a bit of experimentation, with the
>exception of the OCR conversion, the entire operation can be done with
>free software on pretty much any modern computing platform, thanks to
>the portability of the needed software.
A bit off topic (sorry) but wondering about that PDF conversion. This
may be a dumb question but did you ever try the PDF conversion in
calibre ( https://calibre-ebook.com )?
I like the PDF to htmlz conversion even if mostly the result still
needs (a lot of) extra work.
Cheers,
uncle rubl
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2019-03-10 4:39 Rudi Blom [this message]
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2019-03-11 5:45 Rudi Blom
2019-03-09 22:29 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-03-10 5:16 ` Bakul Shah
2019-03-09 19:19 Doug McIlroy
2019-03-09 20:02 ` Bakul Shah
2019-03-09 20:06 ` Clem Cole
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