You haven't said "how" you want to read this book....on your PC screen, print it out, on a PDA or what.
I read a LOT of books on my PDA primarily in Mobipocket format and there used to be and probably still is a desktop version as well. While Mobipocket is not OSS, the reader is free and I think the conversion software is also free. So, the book could be converted from HTML and it "should" retain its hyperlinks. Take a look and see what you think. On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 23:07 -0400, Brian Chrisman wrote: > Sebastian Smith wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I haven't RTFM on this one yet, but could use some advice anyway. > > > > I've downloaded the online version of a textbook using wget. It's a > > great book, but a pain to view in html, and not very portable (there > > are a couple thousand files associated with this book). So, what I'd > > like to do is convert the book to pdf. I'm not sure how to go about > > it though. I'd like all links to remain intact so that navigating > > through the book is still easy. > > > > Here is a link to the book: > > > > http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/%7Esutton/book/ebook/the-book.html > > > > I appreciate your suggestions. > > > How good do you want it to be? There are things like html2pdf out there > which can vaguely do what you're looking for... the big limitation being > that pdf is a typesetting language, whereas HTML is nominally a > display-neutral markup language.... ie, there's no real concept in html > of where to stop or start a particular page, footer, or what not, while > there is in pdf. XSL:FO(and to some extent, XSLt) is all about turning > XML into pdf documents, but FO is extremely... err.. verbose... > Later versions of CSS also seem to be doing somewhat of a half-assed job > at becoming a typesetting language. > > > Thanks, > > > > - Sebastian > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > RLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug -- Dennis R. Bagley Ross Bagley Professional Services 4650 Wedekind Rd Ste 3 Sparks, NV 89431 Voice: 775-359-1040 Fax: 775-359-1014 This e-mail and any attachments hereto are the property of Ross Bagley Professional Services. This information is proprietary, strictly confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee please notify the sender by return and delete the message. You may not disclose, forward or copy this e-mail or any attachments to any third party without the prior consent of the sender or a partner/manager of Ross Bagley Professional Services. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
