Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 04:18:39 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Martin Schou <hektor@newz.dk> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PDF-version of the FreeBSD handbook Message-ID: <20030114021839.GA6455@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <3E231D88.4080903@newz.dk> References: <3E22A93C.302@newz.dk> <200301131933.h0DJXtu2095519@intruder.bmah.org> <3E231D88.4080903@newz.dk>
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On 2003-01-13 21:11, hektor@newz.dk (Martin Schou) wrote: > 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 > > Well, it didn't take me more than what ... 1, maybe 2 hours to add the > bookmarks, so it's not like it was a big deal. Haven't gotten around to > inserting blank pages, so that chapters start on even numbers making > them more fit for printing and seperating them with those binder "tabs" > for easy indexing, but that can't take more than a few minutes though. > > What I'm getting at, is that it wouldn't be that big a deal for me to > keep it updated (providing it doesn't go through a release every week of > course) :-) This is exactly the reasn why Bruce said we need to integrate the bookmark creation stuff with the current build process. The entire documentation is rebuilt several times within a single day. You'd have to work 24/7 and 365 days a year to keep the bookmarks updated after every build! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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