RadioBanter - ARRL CD-ROMs

gb wrote:
"Roger D Johnson" wrote in message
...

Does anyone have the newer version of Aview that lets
you use the older QST CDs? I think it has some sort
of data file that is required to view the older sets.

Thanks, Roger

ARRL has a the upgrade QST View version 1.04 at this web link:
http://www.arrl.org/notes/qstv/

Why the League did not use Adobe Acrobat for the past QST issues that were
scanned -- has never been mentioned.

gb

For anybody using Linux ...
There is a data file on the disk that is really an ascii
representation of an SQL data base. There are 3 or 4 SQL
tables. I've been meaning to write some code to scan that
file and build the required SQL tables and then use mySQL or
Postgresql to perform the functions that the supplied
windows program does. The actual images are .tiff files
that can be imported into OpenOffice documents and printed.
I've been unable to find the necessary programming interface
necessary to perform the necessary 'back door' macro operations
on a running OpenOffice Writer session to create, view, and
print a document under the control of another program. I know
this can be done with MS word from a visual basic program, I
wrote such a script that could be run from Rational Rose to
create a UML document.

By reading the data file (it is ascii) and searching by hand
I can find the necessary .tiff files that make up the document
(well almost all of them....when an article is continued in the
back of the magazine those pages are usually NOT listed in the
database and you have to find them by reading the article).
I can then open a new OO writer document and insert each page as
a graphic into the document. Finally when all the pages have
been inserted, I can print the article (double sided using
a printer with a duplexor). I can also save the document for
later reading. I can create a cd with all of the articles that
interest me. Right now, all this must be done by hand.
It can be automated by creating the SQL database, and the OO
backdoor. (Windows users can use MS word, vs basic and foxbase).