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What's more, few of the documents created with Adobe Distiller are as feature-rich as what you get with these tools. And with Linux it's all free. No surprise at all. Linux is not required, but given the context of this document I make the assumption here that you have an operating system that is basically Unix-like. Enter the command " latex " at the shell prompt.

Do you get something like the following? This is TeX, Version 3. Now type " thumbpdf ". Few people seem to bother with those anyway, probably because they don't know how to create them…. To see if you have all the right pieces in place, create yourself a working directory perhaps called " tex " and then cut-and-paste the following text into a file in that directory named " test.

Figure 2 : Acrobat Reader 4. At this resolution it may not be obvious, but the outline in the left column reflects the section and subsections of the text on the page. Now run the command. TeX and LaTeX works as a compiler does. It parses the document specification and builds output from that.

Any forward references say a reference on page 1 to an object somewhere else, maybe on page 50 are not yet known by the time that the reference on page 1 is processed. By running the program a second time it will be able to fill-in the reference on page 1 that it finally encountered on page 50 on the previous run. But back to our test.

You should get several dozen lines of output from the program, most or all of which you can ignore. You should get the shell prompt back; if not then there's an error and you should check that you copied and pasted the test document from Figure 1 correctly. If everything went as planned then you should now have a simple PDF file named " test. You could now blindly trust that your PDF document is ready for distribution.

Instead, it would be good to check it. Further below I'll also show you how to add thumbnail images to the PDF for some extra karma. Try the following commands in succession. As soon as one of them works you should have a way of verifying your documents. I'll leave it up to you to research the operation of these programs:. If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader acroread installed then you have access to a set of features of the PDF document that the other programs may not make fully accessible to you.

Figure 2 shows you what this document looks like on my x sized display screen. Note the bookmark outline in the left column. And if you look closely you'll notice that there is some blue web link and green external document link text, too.

There is a red page number, too, that links to a page in this document, but it's too small to read at the resolution of that image. You should be able to see that on your own copy, though!

At this point you've managed to produce a fairly nice, if simple PDF document. In the next sections I'll show you how to add some cool features. This is a good time to examine the various parts of that " test. This will also let you customize the output. Here is that relevant section:.

The hyperref macro package provides you with the ability to specify hyperlinks in your document. The package is configured with a series of comma-separated options in the optional [ ] -list:.

Now, you are probably wondering what's with these "rltred", "rltgreen", and "rltblue" colours. These are defined after and could be defined before the hyperref package, but must be defined after the color package is included. Of note here is the fact that I'm using a somewhat darker green than usual because green on a white computer monitor background gets washed-out too easily.

If you tried to compile " test. If that doesn't make a lot of sense to you, don't worry about it. The last five lines are the interesting stuff. It's basically an if-then-else statement that allows us to do some stuff when compiling the document for PDF, and something else for LaTeX. I'll have another example for you later see Figure 8 that includes all the tricks.

For now, just keep reading:. Shame on you! Not at all! Haha, flexible software. Gotta love it! So, what program should we use to generate high-quality scaled representations of our PDF document's pages? But there's a way to get it to process all of our pages without reloading the program so we pay this slow-loading penalty only once per document. That's not bad. Using The GIMP gives me a chance to introduce non-interactive use of that program, which took me a while to figure out and get right.

Why not teach you that, too? The following invocation of Ghostscript gs will take an inputfile. But wait, I've already incorporated this in a nifty tool see Figure 8. We'll now proceed to using The GIMP to perform automated processing of multiple image files from the command line.

Store the following file as " scale-file. If you have GIMP 1. As the comment in this file explains it will accept an input file and an output file, as well as the desired dimensions for the image to be written to the output file. The scaling will perform an "unsharp mask" operation to undo some of the blurring effect caused by the down-scale operation. This is especially valuable for small thumbnails: they will have a slightly heightened contrast, which improves their appearance.

Note, the "1" as the first argument in the commands refers to the fact that this script is to run in non-interactive mode. I've commented out the gimp-display-new img command; if you ran this in interactive mode it would not just prompt you for various parameters but would also produce an image window to show you the result.

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