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<li><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org">ldp-discuss@lists.linuxdoc.org</A>, <A HREF="mailto:ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org">ldp-discuss@lists.debian.org</A></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: PDF output on http://www.linuxdoc.org/ </li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Grant Taylor <<A HREF="mailto:gtaylor%2Bldpdisc_ejbba042000@picante.com">gtaylor+ldpdisc_ejbba042000@picante.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:21:47 -0400</li>
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<li><em>In-reply-to</em>: Your message of "Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:11:58 EDT." <<a href="msg02007.html">10004201011.ZM16559@hoop.timonium.sgi.com</a>> </li>
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>>>>> "Greg Ferguson" <gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com> writes:
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>> Can someone tell me what is the tool used to generate these PDF files ?
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> - Create a singular ("nochunk"'ed) HTML version:
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> - Use htmldoc to create PDF/PostScript:
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So, at least last month, I found that this produced a somewhat klunky
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PDF file - especially when compared to LaTeX output. There were all
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sorts of typographic nicities missing, among other things.
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I found that better results were possible by using pdflatex on a
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slightly mangled interim latex source file generated with sgmltools.
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If we were to use the various latex packages intended for use in
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pdftex, we could more intelligently generate navigation features,
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giving us the best of both worlds. This (or especially a
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`jadepdftex') would also keep us more in the mainline of free software
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DocBook development, so to speak; deviating wildly from common
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infrastructure is what got us stuck with Linuxdoc in the first
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place...
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Alternatively, the Ghostscript 6.x ps2pdf script is reputed to do a
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much better job than the one in 5.x. It's not clear what support
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there is for navigation features, though; I think it only does
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thumbnails unless you get clever.
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<li><strong><a name="02007" href="msg02007.html">Re: PDF output on http://www.linuxdoc.org/</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> "Greg Ferguson" <gferg@hoop.timonium.sgi.com></li></ul></li>
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