Re: 2.14 docs PDF portfolio

[Nick Payne]

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.

Nick