10 Mar
2019
10 Mar
'19
5:39 a.m.
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 15:29:11 -0700
From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe(a)math.utah.edu>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Failing Memory of an Algol Based System from years ago
Message-ID: <CMM.0.95.0.1552170551.beebe(a)gamma.math.utah.edu>
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http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/RC-4000/
The Web page that comes up gives a directory of the available files,
and documents the steps needed to produce them. The result is a
searchable document, with a single page image per PDF page, rather
than the mixed bitmap scan of 1-up and 2-up pages in the original PDF
file.
Despite my 40+ year engagement in the TeX community, I
only recently
learned via the texhax mailing of some PDFTeX internals that allow one
to construct a file that can retypeset n-up files into 1-up format.
I therefore make this posting in the hope that someone else might be
encouraged to tackle similar document improvements in the bitsavers.
archives. Although it takes a bit of experimentation, with the
exception of the OCR conversion, the entire operation can be done with
free software on pretty much any modern computing platform, thanks to
the portability of the needed software.
A bit off topic (sorry) but wondering about that PDF conversion. This
may be a dumb question but did you ever try the PDF conversion in
calibre ( https://calibre-ebook.com )?
I like the PDF to htmlz conversion even if mostly the result still
needs (a lot of) extra work.
Cheers,
uncle rubl