Re: ARM and AARM pdf's: no bookmarks

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> "braver" <deliverable@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1195082338.627980.88590@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
>> When using ARM and AARM pdf's from AdaIC site, they show no bookmarks
>> in Adobe Reader.  Many modern books come with bookmarks for chapters
>> and subchapters, which are shown hierarchically in PDF viewers,
>> allowing for quick jump to a section of interest.  Who should be
>> contacted to suggest the official pdf's are processed to get such
>> bookmarks?
>
> You'd probably want to ask me.
>
> But I have absolutely no idea of how to add bookmarks to the PDF in an
> automated way, given that the original files are processed through Microsoft
> Word. (Adding them by hand surely won't be practical.) 

That's partly why I started a LaTeX version of the ARM; LaTeX to pdf
can produce bookmarks, as well as all the other hyperlinks.

But it's a big job.

> If you really, really wanted to upgrade the PDFs, I'd suggest downloading
> the Standard's construction tools and doing this yourself. I'd be happy to
> give you some pointers if you wanted to do that (and the handful of
> hand-corrections that are needed to make the document printable).

See http://stephe-leake.org/ada/arm.html for the version of the
construction tools with a start on LaTeX output.

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-- Stephe