Re: 8.1 PDF Documentation.

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:13:01AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> writes:
> > > It took about two days each (run serially) on a 2xOpteron 246 using debian
> > > unstable's:
> > > openjade: 1.3.2-8
> > > opensp: 1.5.1/0-4
> > > docbook-dsssl: 1.79-3
> >
> > BTW, the -US file sends my (rather old) copy of acroread into what
> > may be an infinite loop ... I gave up waiting for it to redisplay
> > after trying to scroll down the bookmarks window.  Even just
> > displaying successive pages is painfully slow.
> >
> > I suspect there's something wrong with the toolset you're using.
>
> I am using Acrobat 5.0 on XP and BSD/OS and it worked fine for me,
> including bookmarks.  It was very fast.

Acrobat works beautifully for me, too. :)

> I am still unclear why there is no more reliable SGML toolchain for
> PDF output after all these years.  Seems things have improved
> because we now have bookmarks, but still, why is this functionality
> not more mainstream.

See, there are these tuits, and they're round, and they're a precious
resource usually spent on writing and testing C code rather than on
improving (and helping transition adoption of) the SGML toolchain.

Maybe we can get some kind soul(s) to donate some tuits and/or pay
somebody a wage for awhile to fix the toolchain etc. :)

Cheers,
D
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