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Re: Produce PDFs of Documentation notebooks?

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  • Subject: [mg103259] Re: Produce PDFs of Documentation notebooks?
  • From: ragfield <ragfield at gmail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:56:46 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <h8d56e$13s$1@smc.vnet.net>

On Sep 11, 4:27 am, Tyler <hayes.ty... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> I'm currently running Mathematica 7.0.1 on a Linux computer, and there is=
 a
> bug where any documentation that uses the Help Browser (old style
> documentation) pegs my CPU and I have to shutdown Mathematica. The frustr=
ation
> is that three of the packages I've purchased from Wolfram (Time
> Series, Neural Networks, and Wavelet Explorer) use this old style. As
> such, I'm hamstrung trying to learn how to use these.
>
> Thankfully, I've found the documentation online, which will allow me
> to at least copy code. However, I still like to have a hardcopy to
> peruse at my leisure away from the computer. One thing I thought was
> to convert all of the notebooks to a PDF, then concatenate them all
> together. I was wondering if there is a way to do this as a shell
> script from the command line. That is, For all notebooks in the
> subdirectories under:
>
> /usr/share/Mathematica/Applications/Wavelets/Documentation/English
>
> Open the notebook in Mathematica and save each as a PDF, effectively the =
same
> name, new extension.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts or experience on how to do this?

Do this in Mathematica using FileNames[], NotebookOpen[], NotebookPrint
[], and NotebookClose[].

-Rob


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