From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jan 13 11:53:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16E5E37B401; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:53:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E80A43ED8; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:53:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from moble.pittgoth.com (acs-24-154-229-196.zoominternet.net [24.154.229.196]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h0DJrBAp082688; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:53:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:53:19 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:33:55 -0800 "Bruce A. Mah" 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message