Rutebook and a lot more

[Florian Diesch]

NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:


> 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:

That thread gave me the idea to create pdfrecycle
<http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/pdfrecycle/>


With pdfrecycle you need a file like

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
FILE rute.pdf
LAYOUT 1x1

MARK Title
PAGE 1-4

MARK Chapter Summery
PAGE 5-6

MARK Contents
PAGE 7-26

MARK Preface
PAGE 27,28

MARK Acknowledgments
PAGE 29,30

MARK Introduction
MARK1 What This Book Covers
MARK1 Read This Next...
MARK1 What Do I Need to Get Started?
PAGE 31

MARK1 More About This Book
MARK1 I Get Frustrated with U NIX Documentation That I Don't Understand
MARK1 Linux Professionals Institute (LPI) and RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Requirements
PAGE 32

MARK1 Not RedHat: RedHat-like
MARK1 Updates and Errata
PAGE 33,34

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


Then run pdfrecycle to create a new PDF with that bookmarks



   Florian
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<http://www.florian-diesch.de/>
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