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[Pastor JW]

On Saturday 24 May 2008 06:25:50 pm NoOp wrote:

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> 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.

> My question: does anyone know how to do the above (use the html files
> and create a pdf with bookmarks from the internal urls) using a OS linux
> program? If so can you post how to do this? Asking because most won't
> have access to a $$-paidfor Acrobat program, and I'd like to wean myself
> from Acrobat anyway. Note: I am talking about _Acrobat_ (versions 4 &
> 6), _not_ Adobe Reader (linux 8.1) which is the pdf reader program.

I also opened the included html file with Firefox and saved my place via 
bookmarks.  Either way works although html version does not autosave your 
place, you have to make your own bookmarks.  This might be better if you are 
the kind of person who jumps back to re-read previously read content.  Of 
course on can do this with pdf also but by using the index page or dropping a 
bookmark tag which appers in KPDF as a paperclip on the thumbnail page.  

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