Rutebook and a lot more

[NoOp]

On 08/28/2008 01:31 PM, Young wrote:
> Doug Pollard wrote:
>> If that is a doable thing I would think it an excellent solution if it 
>> could be incorporated in.
>>                                                     Doug
>> 
>> 
>> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>>> Doug Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net>  said:
>>>   
>>>> He should be able to click applications Rutebook 
>>>> and that followed by all the other categories of applications.
>>>>     
>>> The problem here is that rutebook is not an application but a series of
>>> HTML documents.  Perhaps a ready-made bookmark with a desktop link that
>>> opens rutebook in your browser would work as well?
>>>
>>> Cybe R. Wizard
>>>   
>> 
>> 
> I choose to use the PDF version. It seemed that the PDF search would be 
> easier than an HTML search. Is that not the case?
> 

There was a thread about a month or two ago on this very subject
(Rutebook) & how to view etc.

What I did was create a PDF from the html files setting the url links as
bookmarks. That way you can easily see each chapter etc., by scrolling
through the bookmarks (26. TCP and UDP, 27. DNS and Name Resolution,
etc).  I then just click on the pdf bookmark and it takes me directly to
that page in the pdf.

Unfortunately, the only way that I figured out how to do that was by
using Adobe Acrobat to generate the pdf w/bookmarks. I'll not release my
pdf as Rutebook is copyrighted:

====
About this document ...
This document was generated using the LaTeX2HTML translator Version
99.2beta8 (1.46)
Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, Nikos Drakos, Computer Based
Learning Unit, University of
Leeds.
Copyright © 1997, 1998, 1999, Ross Moore, Mathematics Department,
Macquarie University, Sydney.
The command line arguments were:
latex2html -split +1 -notransparent -antialias -white -local_icons rute.
tex
====

I reckon that one could contact the authors and see if they could
release the pdf w/bookmarks. Then again, why not help out the author(s)
and just buy the book:
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0130333514/ref=sr_1_olp_1/103-7413444-2691062?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219960912&sr=1-1>

Note that Rutebook is a little dated (still very useful however).