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> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]De la part de=20
> Vladimir Alexiev
> Envoy=E9 : mercredi 20 novembre 2002 23:20
> =C0 : Newton Talk (E-mail)
> Objet : [NTLK] html2newt news; font metrics? book.hints?
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> Our html2newt project is getting some traction: it seems that we 3
> will be joining forces: Vincent Lee (author of Unicode Press), Dakkar
> and me (Vlad). The goal of the project is to make a convertor from
> html/text/[pdf] to newton book, running on win&mac,=20
> supporting unicode.
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YES, greats things :-)
> - it seems we won't be using bookmaker because it:
Thats the way I'm going to for the PDF translation to pkg.
> PDF support (this is important to Didier and Laurent):
Thanks !!!
> - Vince currently does text (uncompressed only) from pdf but the
> extraction is rudimentary.
Thats my phase 1. When I will extract text, I tell you more.
- I think that a better approach is to use a free service like =
www.gobcl.com
(better) or =
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html
(not too good).
The probl=E8me : you must be connected to work. That's not true =
everytime, and not really simple for batch translation.
That's just my point of view.
Cordialement
Didier BOURGUIGNON
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