Ddoc to PDF

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:i9j7c7$209t$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> There's no need for all that. It took me a short time to produce a set of 
>> macros that would generate LaTeX files from ddoc. I'm sure I have it 
>> somewhere, or I could rewrite it. From there you get to produce high 
>> quality PDFs.
>
> I think you're right and that's the way we should do it.
>
> On the other hand, just for fun I wanted to see if I could read a 
> paperback I got from the thrift store on my ipod. I sliced the back off, 
> and ran it through a scanner to create an OCR'd pdf. Loading the pdf into 
> my ipod didn't work, as it was 25 megs and so far, the only way I've 
> figured out how to get pdf's to the ipod is via email.
>

My portable music player is a Toshiba Gigabeat F with the Rockbox firmware. 
I can put any files I want onto it by connecting the USB cord and treating 
it like the USB HDD that it actually is. (Doesn't have a pdf reader though. 
Although it can display text files.)

> (Apple didn't get everything right.)
>

Clearly not!