Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 15:27:06 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Matt G." <matt_g_@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fix for bad margins in PDF files Message-ID: <200202182327.g1INR6E93462@bmah.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <F116R0pYzSBlV2lyVV000007bf6@hotmail.com> References: <F116R0pYzSBlV2lyVV000007bf6@hotmail.com>
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If memory serves me right, "Matt G." wrote: > I just grabbed a copy of the FreeBSD PDF from: > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en/books/handbook/ > > It has a copyright date of 2002, in the front matter, so I assume it's > fairly recent. You can look at the timestamp on the file on the FTP site to see when it was last built. > I wanted to report a problem with the top margins (the header is almost off > the page). I believe this to be an issue that jadetex has, in producing > .dvi files. I have discovered two approaches to rectifying the issue: > * use pdfjadetex to create the PDF files, directly. This has > the advantage that the structure of the document doesn't > get flattened (such as with xrefs) and you get "bookmarks", > which is the navigation bar with a clickable outline of the > the document. If you look at doc/en*/books/handbook/Makefile, you'll see that for the Handbook, this isn't an option due to the size of the document. (Apparently, tweaking texmf.cfg can't fix the problem either.) murray knows more about this. I just ran into this problem with the French translation of the Handbook. As far as I know, no other document is large enough to require this fix. > * use the -O "0.0in,0.75in" flag, with dvips/dvipdf. Well, I just checked the PostScript rendering I built locally yesterday, and its top margin looks fine (although I see the same problem with the PDF file that you saw). I wonder if the ps2pdf script (or something that it relies on) that's used to produce the PDF file could be at fault? Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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