Tim Green wrote:
2009/3/4 Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk:
Tim Green wrote:
Are they mad? It's not 'a' PDF - it's a series of PDFs (including some files that only contain adverts) linked by an HTML page, all wrapped up in a 127MB zip downloaded over bittorrent.
Based on my experience of large PDF files that's probably no bad thing; a single 127MB PDF file would probably be unmanageable.
As for it including adverts: well the magazine does, so I would expect the PDF to too. It's still a few quid cheaper than the newstand, and I assume the advertising will help pay for the exercise anyway.
I'm not objecting to the adverts - I'm just surprised they can be so easily avoided / deleted.
A single PDF would be easier to search and would allow the traditional reading pattern of starting at one end flipping through each page to the other end.
Tim.
I wish I'd known about this offer before I paid for the dead tree version on Monday!
For anyone interested, a bit of scripting with pdftotext suggests that the the full magazine is arranged in the order listed at the end of this email, though having created the list, it just occurred to me that I tend to dip in and out of this magazine in random order anyway!
To build the full PDF try using pdftk (http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/). Put the list below in file "order.txt" together with the extracted PDF's and run the following in the same directory:
$ pdftk $(order.txt) cat output LXF116.pdf
I found the resulting file quite usable on my machine.
Cheers,
Safe
LXF116.cover.pdf LXF116.dvd_wallet.pdf LXF116.subs.pdf LXF116.welcome.pdf LXF116.content.pdf LXF116.pca_ad.pdf LXF116.news.pdf LXF116.user.pdf LXF116.mail.pdf LXF116.rev_int.pdf LXF116.backpage.pdf LXF116.rev_popcorn.pdf LXF116.rev_double.pdf LXF116.rev_crunch.pdf LXF116.rev_cafe.pdf LXF116.rev_tribe.pdf LXF116.round.pdf LXF116.rev_books.pdf LXF116.dwatch.pdf LXF116.kde.pdf LXF116.feature2.pdf LXF116.dvd.pdf LXF116.lugspice.pdf LXF116.sysadmin.pdf LXF116.woe.pdf LXF116.dvdpgs.pdf LXF116.hot.pdf LXF116.discinfo.pdf LXF116.subs_ovr.pdf LXF116.tut_int.pdf LXF116.tut_begin.pdf LXF116.tut_acer.pdf LXF116.tut_gimp.pdf LXF116.tut_data.pdf LXF116.tut_networking.pdf LXF116.tut_adv.pdf LXF116.answr.pdf LXF116.b_iss.pdf LXF116.pcpad.pdf LXF116.n_month.pdf LXF116.dvd_body.pdf