Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:17:18 -0800 From: bmah@freebsd.org (Bruce A. Mah) To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>, Norman Man <nhcman@spark.net.hk>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error handbook.pdf file Message-ID: <200102280517.f1S5HI512121@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <20010227094255.A1425@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <3A96108E.DE0B0B84@spark.net.hk> <20010226190232.A367@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20010226220916.A4088@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200102262304.f1QN4ug94944@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010226232135.A5348@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200102270000.f1R00mX95874@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010227094255.A1425@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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--==_Exmh_500195068P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 04:00:48PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > > What does the table of contents look like? Any '??' or '999' in the > > > page numbers? > > > > Ahhh, foo. > > > > Lots of "999" in the page numbers. I've put it in my home directory on > > freefall if you want to look through it. > > No ta, I built lots of them myself last night :-) OK. > Looks like we've reached a pdftex limit that can't be worked around. I'm wondering...heck, it's only software, right? So if there's some hardcoded limit, we can figure out what it is, and patch it to Do The Right Thing (TM). Of course I haven't looked at the code so what do I know? And I'm not volunteering to do it either. :-p > Two choices (I think). > > 1. Use something like ps2pdf to convert the Handbook to PDF. > > Nice, simple, and means that we lose all the hyperlinks in the PDF > file, which I'd rather avoid if possible. Yep. > 2. Split the Handbook up. > > I've been wanting to do this for a while anyway. The easiest way > to do this would probably be to turn each <part> in to a book in > its own right. The more complicated way would be to hive out > certain chapters, "The FreeBSD Printing Book", "The FreeBSD > Security Book", and so on. My first reaction is that we'd lose the ability the hyperlink between the different books, and that references between sections/parts of the different books might be kind of hard. I'm actually leaning towards #1, since I can't remember Acrobat Reader handling the hyperlinks in PDF correctly anyways (well, it doesn't for RELNOTESng). Bruce. --==_Exmh_500195068P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE6nIne2MoxcVugUsMRApAGAKCrasH1d+Pd+erjbmAKTT03++R4TQCfdho+ VHO90QW8Psp9dBfqAcLtrhU= =O9s2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_500195068P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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