discuss: htmldoc and pdf problem
Subject:
Re: htmldoc and pdf problem
From:
Hal Burgiss ####@####.####
Date:
8 Aug 2002 05:49:56 -0000
Message-Id: <20020808014955.Q3765@feenix.burgiss.net>
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:45:37AM +0530, Shuvam wrote:
>
> > Has anyone run into this, and know if there is a solution? I've
> > already tried quite a few other methods of generating pdf, and
> > htmldoc is just plain better looking than anything else I've
> > found. I don't see they have a way of reporting bugs/anomalies
> > short of paying $150USD :/
>
> Lloyd (ldp at foolswisdom dot org) was reviewing the recently
> rewritten Usenet HOWTO which we now maintain. He downloaded the PDF
> and made the same comment about our HOWTO. We write SGML and
> internally use dvips to and ps2pdf to generate our PDF before
> submitting the SGML source to LDP. We never had any problems with
> our PDF TOC, so we didn't know what Lloyd was talking about.
>
> Will you please check the Usenet HOWTO PDF on tldp.org? I'm marking a
> copy to Lloyd, in case he can clarify what he saw.
I guess the "Usenet News HOWTO"?
Well, there certainly is something wrong, but I am not sure its the
same problem. What I get downloading the finished pdf from tlpd for
your HOWTO, is that every TOC link goes to the title page (page 1).
To clarify a bit, now that I've played some more with it, is that the
pdf I am generating locally from single page HTML, has a page number
discrepancy of some kind. So if I have a TOC entry like:
Installation............................15
I click that, the page it goes to shows as page 14, while the xpdf
status bar shows 16. No man's land :/ This is very consistent, and the
content is wrong as well (one page short of where it should be).
Acrobat reader shows something similar. I did post this on the htmldoc
mailing list.
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Hal Burgiss
