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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Jason Pickering <
jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> After a quite long vacation, it is time to get back to work. I have
> come up with a fairly painless workflow to get from PDF to DocBook for
> the Indian manuals. My plan at the moment is to extract all of the
> images and text as seperate pieces and the reassemble everything in
> DocBook format. It will be a lot of copying and pasting, but I suspect
> there is not much of an easier way to get from PageMaker to DocBook
> anyway. The extraction process is pretty straight forward with Linux.
> It would seem that there is a fair amount of duplication with the
> DocBook manuals, as they were to a large degree based on the original
> manuals received from India sometime back. There is also a few
> sections which are not totally applicable to the main branch at the
> moment at least. I am thinking specifically about the section on the
> mobile application, but there are some others as well.
>
> I was wondering if I should go ahead and do this, and whether the
> group would be comfortable with me excercising some editorial leeway
> to make the manual more general.
>
>
Thanks for taking this initiative.. Just go ahead and make the changes you
feel are required. I will go over and update the technical docs soon.

Lars