[BLU/Officers] Slides and notes for September BLU Notes

[Bill Ricker]

Oh, the rest of the *title* is
*  & a Historical Vignette: AF is MIDWAY*

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:

> I posted your notes as-is to the BLU server,
>

*comment*,

   - the *Transcript* PNG and TXT links are 404 ?
   - the Notes file *25.doc.html*  can be posted as Notes
   - as can the Notes *25-doc.odt*

I gather the very nice FlipBook format is generated from PDF?


but when i tried to generate a PDF version, i couldn't get pandoc to work
> right.
> It keeps choking on the images, and it also spits out warnings about
> unicode characters that latex apparently cannot handle.
>

Yeah, that's what it did for me too. IDK what the problem is. It's pandoc
to PDF has worked for one of us in previous years?

Can you send me PDF versions of your slides and your notes?
>

Not without a lot of hand-massaging slides the slipy-slides into
PPT(x)/ODP.
Which due to page break misassumptions is a lot of work unless I debug
Pandoc, unknown.

You should be able to export a Notes PDF from the ODT of the notes.

*AHAH!!!!*

*✓ I exported to ODT a second time and deleted the NOTES sections,
converted to Landscape, and voila, I can export a PDF with only a little
fiddling.*
*Attached.*

As dense as some of these slides are,* if FlipBook has a 1-up option, *that
might be better, at least for folks w/o 4k screens?
(2 up is cute and book like in the name ... but not always preferred)

-- 
Bill Ricker
bill.n1vux at gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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