[Olpc-open] Getting paper out of schools.

[Seth Woodworth]

There are several examples where this is the case: re-used PDF's end up on
the XO due to a lack of volunteers (volunteer management really) to reformat
them.

The Hesperian books are an example.

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Carol Lerche <cafl at msbit.com> wrote:

> Ed, I think the issue isn't that postscript CAN'T be used to format
> properly for the target device.  It is that it ISN'T being used.  The PDF
> documents I have seen that are made available with and pointed to the XO are
> NOT formatted for the XO display.  Presumably this is because there was an
> attempt to provide pre-existing resources or that OLPC had no access to the
> source documents to regenerate the PDF files.  This would be a good
> volunteer activity, I think.
>
> If we had a structured catalog of the electronic materials being suggested
> for / distributed with the XO, we could systematically go after doing this.
> The Wiki is totally inappropriate for this type of application.  Anyone
> interested in this?
>
> Carol Lerche
>
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