[ale] [OT] how do I convert this web based book to pdf or doc

Fri Feb 1 22:28:46 EST 2013

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On 02/01/2013 02:41 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> I hadn't thought of that.  That sounds pretty cool.  In my case,
> the way I did things, I would have ended up with 20 or so PDF's,
> since I printed each major topic in the book, but that still could
> be handy.  Live and learn.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Ron
> 
Ron, if you go that route of printing to several PDF files you can use
PDF Chain (Linux app) that will merge the separate files into one file
sort of like what cat does to text files. Pretty easy to use GUI too.
It does not renumber the page numbers will kepp the original page
numbers from the individual files.


> 
> JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> 
>> If you can print a document from any program, then you can print
>> it directly into PDF on either Windows or Linux using a PDF
>> printer driver.  This has been available for PDF since the
>> beginning.
>> 
>> There are a number of Free PDF drivers for Windows, in addition
>> to the expensive commercial versions from Adobe (which nobody
>> needs).  For Linux, there is a free PDF driver too - it shows up
>> in CUPS. I don't recall how to make it happen, but it is easier
>> than pretty much any printer driver to get working, IMHO.
>> 
>> 
>> On 02/01/2013 01:54 PM, James Sumners wrote:
>>> What you linked to isn't really an "ebook". Yeah, it's digital
>> content and
>>> they call it a "book," but eBooks have very specific formats.
>>> Those
>> formats
>>> _are_ just HTML/XHTML, but the files are organized according to
>>> a
>> standard.
>>> This website does not follow that standard at all. The links I
>>> gave
>> you
>>> should have made the process easier. 1) Convert the CHM to
>>> HTML, 2)
>> convert
>>> the HTML to PDF, and 3) print the PDF. I believe you could
>>> have
>> converted
>>> directly to PDF with the first tool; but I've never used it.
>>> 
>>> As for people making eBooks easier to print -- good luck. The
>> standard isn't
>>> designed for such, and it's a copyright violation. DRM free
>>> eBooks
>> (e.g. all
>>> O'Reilly eBooks) are only DRM free so that you can use them on
>>> any _electronic_ device you wish to read it on. They're not DRM
>>> free so
>> that you
>>> can print them.
>>> 
>>> That being said, using the second tool I linked to, Pandoc, you
>>> could
>> 
>>> probably have made it even easier to print. Use Pandoc to
>>> convert the
>> HTML to
>>> LaTeX, which should strip out the circular links, and then
>>> render the
>> LaTeX
>>> to PDF.
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) 
>>> <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> Just thought I'd post an update.  My main objective was to be
>>>> able
>> to
>>>> download and print the ebook.  They provide it in a CHM
>>>> format, but
>> I could
>>>> never read it for some reason.  I installed Calibre, then
>>>> imported
>> the chm
>>>> file and then saved it back out.  Now, for some reason, I'm
>>>> able to
>> read it
>>>> natively in Windows.  I printed it from there, which was
>>>> somewhat of
>> a
>>>> nightmare.  I had to go to each major topic page in the table
>>>> of
>> contents
>>>> then print it.  Fortunately, the print screen has an option
>>>> to also
>> print
>>>> all linked documents one level down in the hierarchy.  So,
>>>> by
>> printing each
>>>> main topic, I was also able to get almost all the sub topics.
>>>> Of
>> course,
>>>> each page also linked to the previous and next topic, as well
>>>> as
>> things
>>>> like the company home page, etc., so I had a lot of
>>>> redundant
>> content that
>>>> I threw into the recycle bin.  But, over a period of a few
>>>> hours, I
>> got it
>>>> printed.  I took it to office max and had it bound.  It
>>>> turned out
>> to be 5
>>>> volumes each about 3/4" !
>>> th!
>>>> ick printed on my laser printer single sided.  Now I have to
>>>> set
>> about
>>>> learning the topic that's documented in the book, which
>>>> relates to a specialized currency trading platform.  There
>>>> was no way I was going
>> to try
>>>> to read all that on my computer monitor.
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe later, I'll get around to finishing converting this to
>>>> PDF,
>> RTF, or
>>>> EPub, but I couldn't figure that out with a cursory review of
>>>> the
>> Calibre
>>>> menus.  If any of you are thinking of publishing an ebook,
>>>> PLEASE
>> PLEASE
>>>> make it printable in one simple procedure.  I still have to
>>>> go
>> through and
>>>> hand number the pages and correlate that to the table of
>>>> contents.
>> I'm
>>>> glad this info was provided to me free on the website by the
>> software
>>>> maker, but it has not been free in either time or supplies to
>>>> get it
>> into
>>>> printed form.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for the help and suggestions.
>>>> 
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> 
>>>> Ron
>>> 
>> 
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