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the best way to have and edit your own web page in dos (Announce)

posted by bretjohn Homepage E-mail, Rio Rancho, NM, 07.02.2024, 23:43

> As for me, I create my main web pages (pushbx.org
> landing page and my website)
> using the
> Halibut documentation preparation system, which is intended for
> software manuals but works in a pinch for very simple webpages. I do also
> use it for my long form manuals and
> indeed the HTML format of these manuals is the canonical reference.
Your use of Halibut is interesting. I'm trying to do something similar with with documentation for my programs. Up until now, I just did plain ASCII text documentation so that a user could view and print them without any special programs needed. I originally wrote them in WordPerfect for DOS and then "printed" them to a text file. There were a few quirks, but it worked pretty well.

Now, I'm wanting to distribute the documentation in text and PDF (including hyperlinks), and possibly in HTML as well (but I'm not sure about that). I've started using MS-Word (Windows) to create the original document which can output PDF, HTML, and plain text from the same original Word source document (with the right incantations).

The problem is that it Word only creates later versions of the PDF standard. I want to ultimately generate version 1.0 PDF documents so that they can be viewed in the original Acrobat Reader for DOS (which only understands PDF version 1.0). I've found at least one PDF version converter program that claims to output PDF 1.0 documents, but I can't get the DOS PDF program to read them. I suspect it's not really generating version 1.0 compatible documents, but it could also be I don't have the Adobe software installed correctly.

I was looking at one of the PDF documents you created and it is version 1.3, so I suspect Halibut only outputs PDF version 1.3.

Does anybody know of a way to create or convert PDF version 1.0 documents? All I need is plain text and hyperlinks, which PDF version 1.0 supports just fine.

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