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)
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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