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Re: Produce PDFs of Documentation notebooks?

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• Subject: [mg103266] Re: Produce PDFs of Documentation notebooks?
• From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
• Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:58:04 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Stanford University
• References: <h8d56e$13s$1@smc.vnet.net>

In article <h8d56e$13s$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Tyler <hayes.tyler at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> One thing I thought was
> to convert all of the notebooks to a PDF, then concatenate them all
> together . . . .  e.g., 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.

      <Sarcasm mode on>

      You mean, Wolfram doesn't do this centrally, and make the PDFs
      downloadable, for _all_ their documentation?  (Essentially all 
      other major and minor software vendors do this.)

      <Sarcasm mode off>

> Does anyone have any thoughts or experience on how to do this?

      As for "thoughts":

      PDFs can be read online using apps designed for that purpose,
      (e.g., Adobe Reader, Acrobat) that have convenient "readability" 
      features that make the process much more user-friendlly than 
      attempting to read Mathematica notebooks on screen.

      And if you're attempting to switch back and forth between a 
      full-screen array of windows for a Mathematica project, and a 
      nearly full-screen large-type display of the PDF documentation,  
      most systems will let you do this cleanly and instantly, with a 
      single click.

      PDF documents can be _searched_, quickly and thoroughly, online, 
      which often brings up info or connections that haven't been
      fully indexed, or might be missed.

      In fact, if you have Acrobat, a full set of PDF documents can be
      batch indexed, giving you a particularly complete and fast 
      responding search capability.

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