B2H does BookMASTER to HTML, not BookManager to PDF. (And, yes, HTML to PDF is probably trivial for most people.)
I use B2H on TSO in Batch almost daily, FWIW. Cheers, Martin From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Colin Paice <colinpai...@gmail.com> Date: Tuesday, 28 February 2023 at 18:19 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: BookManager There is a very old B2H package which I think is Rexx based. It was supported on Windows NT, OS2, VM, OS390 etc, I think I used to use it. It is mentioned http://afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.rs/~ivica/b2h.html Colin On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 18:00, Bernd Oppolzer <bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> wrote: > What is the preferred way to convert BookMgr books to PDF? > > My customer has some home-written BookMgr books, which they cannot access > after the z/OS migration (BookMgr support was dropped with z/OS 2.4). > > We managed to transfer the books to Windows (and OS/2, BTW), where we can > at least look at the books. Now I would like to convert the books to PDFs. > But the free Softcopy Reader refuses to print more than one (selected) > topic > or ranges of topics; if you try to do this using the print menu > (selected or range), > the output is always empty. > > Is this a bug - or: is printing larger portions of text not allowed in > the free version? > What are the options? > > The eMail address book...@us.ibm.com, which is mentioned in the Softcopy > Reader > help texts, doesn't exist any more (BTW: the Softcopy Reader is a 2012 > edition; > this seems to be the last one available). > > Is there a documented API to read the books using a C or REXX program > and build the PDFs this way? Or build HTML from the books? > > Thanks for all suggestions, > kind regards > > Bernd > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless otherwise stated above: IBM United Kingdom Limited Registered in England and Wales with number 741598 Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hants. PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
