Article 129855 of comp.os.vms: Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Path: nntpd.lkg.dec.com!crl.dec.com!crl.dec.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.kei.com!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!esseye!swdev.si.com!tillman From: tillman@swdev.si.com (Brian Tillman, x8425) Subject: Re: HELP : BOOKREADER documents - HTML format Message-ID: <21SEP95.09434059@swdev.si.com> Sender: news@esseye.si.com Nntp-Posting-Host: terwed.si.com Organization: Smiths Industries Aerospace References: <43p2rf$80k@hawk.ee.port.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:43:40 GMT Lines: 43 In a previous article, Matt Pound wrote: -> -> I know this is a complete shot-in-the-dark but has anyone ever come across -> any software to convert Bookreader formated files to HTML ? Subscribe to the list vms-web-daemon@wku.edu. There is a discussion of it there right now. Here's one posting: > The parts of HTBOOK 0.6 can be found by accessing > > http://www.e.kth.se/elektro/gw-demo.html There's also a bookreader toolkit from Dave Jones, HTTP_SERVER's author. He writes: >I've got an update (last one planned for a while) of the bookreader toolkit >files at URL "http://kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu/~jonesd/bookreader/". The >big new thing it adds is a routine to convert bitmapped files into GIF >and a primitive bookreader-to-HTML generator, webbook.c. > >Webbook is intended to be run as a cgilib-based script or by a CGI script >giving it the path on the command line (cc/define=NOCGILIB). The program >addresses the pieces of the file a little differently than the scheme used >by HTBOOK. If the unix-style name of the book file is "/dir/mybook.decw$book", >you'd extract part one of the book by sepcifying "/dir/mybook.p1.decw$book". > >If you want to retrieve section 9 as a GIF, you'd specify >"/dir/mybook.g9.decw$book". The figure is converted directly to a >GIF by webbook, there are no intermediate files. > >The HTML conversion isn't as polished as HTBOOK, but I'm tired of fighting >with it for the time being. For security the script should be using >PATH_TRANSLATED, rather than PATH_INFO as well. You can also FTP ftp://ftp.wku.edu/lists/vms-web-daemon/vms-web-daemon.1995-09 for a complete archive of the discussion. -----------------------------+-------------------------------- Brian Tillman | Internet: tillman@swdev.si.com Smiths Industries, Inc. | tillman_brian@si.com 4141 Eastern Ave., MS129 | Hey, I said this stuff myself. Grand Rapids, MI 49518-8727 | My company has no part in it. -----------------------------+--------------------------------