From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jan 13 18:18:48 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 413BF37B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 18:18:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2153343E4A for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 18:18:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b221.otenet.gr [212.205.244.229]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0E2Ieb1001646; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 04:18:42 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0E2IdQH006563; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 04:18:39 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0E2Ido4006562; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 04:18:39 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 04:18:39 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Martin Schou Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PDF-version of the FreeBSD handbook Message-ID: <20030114021839.GA6455@gothmog.gr> References: <3E22A93C.302@newz.dk> <200301131933.h0DJXtu2095519@intruder.bmah.org> <3E231D88.4080903@newz.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E231D88.4080903@newz.dk> 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 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