Re: [NTLK] PDF on Newton - Google's PDF->HTML converter..

From: Dave Blank (dave_at_nack.net)
Date: Tue Aug 23 2005 - 23:44:09 PDT

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On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:35:16AM -0500, Jim Witte wrote:
>
> Has anyone thought of approaching Google about the code, under
> NDA, considering that Newton is an orphan platform (and, software-
> wise, will probably remain so for some time even after/if Einstein is
> "out there"..). Or for that matter, convince Google to just make the
> translator into a stand-alone program and sell it (although, Acrobat
> *is* free, and even PocketPC and the next-gen Palm are powerful
> enough to run it.. so I don't see what the real need would be, other
> than a mythological real-thin-client computer, a la Sun's Java-dream
> 5 years ago) And then somehow convince them to make the code
> available for port..

google's using the free/open source software, pdftohtml, available here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftohtml

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