Re: [NTLK] PDF Converter

From: Peter H. Coffin (hellsop_at_ninehells.com)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 13:35:43 EST


On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:59:03PM -0500, eschneck_at_mindspring.com wrote:
>
> 1=2E Create a simple Web page to reference the JPG's
> This could be used with NewtsCape to create a Newton Book
>
> or
>
> 2=2E Create a simple RTF to go into Newton Press
> This assumes that we can work around NP's general flakiness=2E
>
> or
>
> 3=2E Create a Mapper module to go into NTK (if we get the NTK problems
> resolved)
> This method has the advantage that Mapper allows large images to be=20
> scrolled, but it uses a lot of heap=2E

2 is likely to be easiest. There's existing tools to make pdfs to ascii
and extracting part of the formatting should be convertable to rtf.

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