Here’s a video to accompany my previous blog post Windows 7 has definite backlight problems (”Black Screen of Death”). As mentioned before, I cannot reproduce this in Arch Linux. The problem began after a recent “Patch Tuesday”.
Microsoft has been denying any problems like this in the media. Comment if you have had similar experience on Nvidia hardware or Intel graphics.
I did some minor updates to boo2pdf. Graphics should now be within the page margins. Please let me know if there are any other common formatting mistakes.
Unfortunately, IBM’s “transmogrifier” utility doesn’t work very well in Wine, so you should preprocess older books in Windows before running them through the boo2pdf web service (download is on that page).
Source code is now available from boo2pdf gitweb.
I’ve just uploaded a beta of boo2pdf, an IBM BookManager to PDF conversion app & web service. I’m currently experimenting with the HTML to PDF backends and would like feedback with book files I haven’t tried. Once the code is cleaned up, I will dump it on my site.
I have a large collection of old IBM machines and documentation. I want this documentation indexed by my own search facilities and Google for easy retrieval. PDF is widely read, while BookManager requires proprietary software and no search engines I know of parse it. This will probably be useful to Mainframers as well.
Take the web service for a spin here:
http://ps-2.kev009.com:8081/boo2pdf/.
