[projectaon] Re: You guys rock!

On Thursday 29 September 2005 14:48, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
> > No, that's currently not possible. In the past I created PDF
> > versions of some of the books, but then I didn't have time for this
> > anymore. Sorry.
>
> wasn't that something scriptable?  Or was it a little more hands-on?
> I also remember the PDF's being a nice option.  While I'm sure
> generating PDF's of the individual pages is little problem, I assume
> the difficulty comes in getting all the pages of one book into a
> single document, with all links working properly (internal and
> external).
>
> I know that ghostscript can be run to combine multiple documents into
> a single file output, I personally don't know how to work that (tried
> and failed), mainly because I haven't managed to figure out the
> non-GUI form of the program.

We can create HTML and LaTeX code from the XML files the books are 
stored in. Using the LaTeX code creating a PDF is just a matter of 
running pdflatex. The problem is that the resulting PDF is suboptimal 
because there are lots of ugly pagebreaks. Finetuning the PDF (move 
images around, enlarge/shrink pages, etc.) to make it look good is the 
real work.

Regards,
Ingo

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