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Date:      Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:53:19 -0500
From:      Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
To:        bmah@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        hektor@newz.dk, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: PDF-version of the FreeBSD handbook
Message-ID:  <20030113145319.0ee2c39a.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200301131933.h0DJXtu2095519@intruder.bmah.org>
References:  <3E22A93C.302@newz.dk> <200301131933.h0DJXtu2095519@intruder.bmah.org>

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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:33:55 -0800
"Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:

> If memory serves me right, Martin Schou wrote:
> > I've taken the liberty of adding bookmarks to the pdf-file, and I am
> > 
> > wondering if you would be interested in the "new and improved"
> > version of the handbook, and if so - how do I deliver it to you?
> 
> Hmmm.  Having the bookmarks is kind of cool...the main problem is that
> 
> they'd disappear the next time someone re-generates the Handbook.
> 
> A big reason we don't have PDF bookmarks in the Handbook, BTW, is due
> to some limitations in the document-building toolchain (basically,
> it'd hard for us to build PDF renditions of big documents).  It'd be
> great if we could fix these, but this is easier said than done.  :-p
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Bruce.
> 
> 
> 

I've really been tossing the entire pdf build around, and wonder
if there is any way we could work around these `limitations' in
a better way than what is currently applied.  I'll dig deeper into
this at a later date, currently I have other things which require
my attention...

*shrug*

--
Tom Rhodes

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