Re: 2.14 docs PDF portfolio

[Francisco Vila]

2011/6/7 Nick Payne <address@hidden>:
> On 07/06/11 17:05, Francisco Vila wrote:
>>
>> 2011/6/7 Nick Payne<address@hidden>:
>>>
>>> I have created a searchable indexed PDF portfolio from the 2.14 English
>>> PDF
>>> docs (Extending, Internals, Learning, Notation, Snippets, Usage, and Web)
>>> and uploaded it to http://www.users.on.net/~njpayne/music/lilydoc.pdf.
>>>
>>> You need Adobe Reader 9.x or later. 3rd party PDF readers can't cope with
>>> PDF portfolios.
>>
>> Okular offers to save all embedded files.
>>
>> Is there a difference between this and a single PDF with all the pages
>> of each document, plus some added pages at the beginning?  If not, it
>> is easy to make one using pdftk which would be readable with free
>> software.
>
> They're not the same beast. With a PDF portfolio there is already an
> embedded index, and you can search for a term across all the embedded files
> at once, and get back, in a separate window, a clickable list of the hits
> and which file(s) they occur in. If you just concatenate the separate PDFs,
> searching will a) be slow, and b) be sequential only.

Right, but if the embedded PDFs are not modified in any way, then --I
imagine-- what is missing is only that additional index which could be
generated and concatenated together.  Could it be?

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Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain)
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