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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!


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