On 04/11/02 14:03, "Donald Wilson" <wdi101_at_stu.wccnet.org> wrote:
>> I suppose the bottom line is that someone needs to dig up the Newton
>> Book specs and see if we can hack up a program to make books natively in
>> OS X. :)
>
> Absolutely! Someone is working in sync abilities in Jaguar... for the New to
> live we
> need MORE abilities in the current OS. Bookmaking would be at the top of the
> list
> for me. Is there enough documentation of the book format to do this? From what
> I've seen I think there is... is it possible to clone the BookMaker and other
> book
> apps in Cocoa?
Somebody could definitely do it if they had the source code. Without the
source code, it is still possible but will require some reverse-engineering
and tries and errors. That would require some dedication in time to such
project.
-Laurent.
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