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[NoOp]

On 05/25/2008 10:48 AM, Pastor JW wrote:
> On Saturday 24 May 2008 06:25:50 pm NoOp wrote:
> 
>>
>> Adding to this; I extracted the pdf and moved it to my home directory so
>> that I: 1) know where it is, and 2) can use Acrobe Reader (yes I know
>> there are others, but for such a large document I thought it easier to
>> use AR) to view the pdf file.
> 
> I did about the same, I used Dolphin to open the pdf file and used "save as" 
> to put a copy of the book into the "Documents" folder.  Reading with Dolphin 
> automatically remembers where you were and opens next time at that same page!   
> You also can add bookmarks by right clicking on the page  
> 
>> Very nice document, but I found that the document contains no bookmarks
>> so that you can easily move to a subject section. So, I cheated and
>> opened Win2KPro in VirtualBox, opened the html files in Acrobat (the
>> licenced PDF editor) and created a rutebook PDF with bookmarks. This
>> makes it so much easier for finding and going to subject chapters.
>  
> I don't quite understand what you did here or why.  Pdf and html are two 
> different formats and BOTH are included in the original .gz.  Did you 
> manually convert the html to pdf?   If you wanted to read the .pdf file with 
> your browser, just double click its icon and it will open in your default 
> pdf reader complete with the ability to manually bookmark.
> 

As I mentioned, the pdf does not have any bookmarks for chapters etc. So
you can view it in whatever pdf viewer and you still have to scroll
through the entire document or use a search to find what you are looking
for. So what I did was use the html files to create a new pdf with
bookmarks. In otherwords; when you view the html files using:
file:///usr/share/doc/rutebook/html/rute.html
you'll see the TOC links that take you to a particular section. The pdf
that I created uses those links as 'bookmarks' in Adobe Reader. So you
open the pdf, click a bookmark, and the pdf page automatically moves you
to the bookmarked section in the document.

Screenshot is located here:
http://drop.io/upqeshk
[click on the picture for a large view]