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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Kris Jurka <[email protected]>
Cc: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: 8.1 PDF Documentation.
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:13:01 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Tom Lane wrote:
> Kris Jurka <[email protected]> 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.

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.

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