Re: PDF portfolio of 2.19.19 docs

[Nick Payne]

On 29/04/2015 16:39, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> Dear Nick,
>
> Why make this a PDF portfolio? It’s not readable on Linux where I do my work. 
> As I understand it, the point of a portfolio is to incorporate disparate 
> document types in one convenient PDF, and to be able to edit them in their 
> native format in situ. But these files are all PDF’s. Why don’t you make a 
> single PDF of these combined? Then everybody can use it on any system.

Because the portfolio is indexed and you can quickly search for a term 
across all the manuals in the portfolio and see the results in a 
separate window.

I create it for my own use and put it on Dropbox in case it is of use to 
anyone else. It's quite usable on Linux if you install acroread - I use 
it that way myself.

If you want to combine all the manuals as a simple PDF use a tool like 
pdftk. But I can't see the advantage of doing it.

Nick