Bookmark

[Anubis]

Hi, was wondering if you could make a bookmark of some kind. I always get lost whenever I come back to it.

[anetMaster]

Hello, and welcome.

I probably could configure the PDF files to have a table of contents, but I think bookmarking in the viewer is a user-side thing. Not sure, haven't played around with it. I usually don't have time for all the extra features I could add to the PDF files. Maybe next chapter/article I'll look into it.

[AmigaDragon]

I was looking for bookmarking too when starting to read various online stories. I think either Adobe would have to keep track in a separate file of where you have any given file bookmarked, or it would have to be able to modify the pdf file itself enough to make a bookmark. In either case, it would be nice if multiple (users') bookmarks could be set, since in many cases the computers and files are public or at least shared. Some authors lock their files so you can't copy to clipboard, and I'm sure this prevents modification of the file without the proper password (or identity, however the locking works).

[AmigaDragon]

I found that recent updates of Adobe Reader actually can remember where you were in a file when you closed it. I don't know if it's done somewhere in the PDF file or on the system. If you read on multiple machines from a flash drive, does each machine remember where you were last on that machine or does each see in that copy of the file where you left off? I'll have to test that out.

[DariusGreywind]

I typically use FBReader because I read stuff on my portable device of the moment (now a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet). It appears to use a separate database file to keep its place in whatever files you open with it (it will remember the last position in everything you open with it).

For PDFs, I usually use Foxit Reader, because the bloatware Adobe one takes too long to load (yes, on my 4800 X2 with 2gb of ram). It does not appear however to remember file positions. My out of date copy of Adobe Reader (7.0) doesn't either, so I can't test it.

[Oly]

Hi I travel to the arctic on work frequently and sometimes get stuck onsite due to weather. Is there any way to get Thorhammer (and the rest of your work) in one file? I have the pieces on my laptop, but one big "book" would sure be nice.

Thanks for the GREAT read Oly

[DariusGreywind]

What I've done is strip it to ASCII and copy-paste it into four files (each 'season'). A-PDF Text Extractor seems to do an ok job with this. I use EditPad Lite to do the merging of text files.

[anetMaster]

I could merge all the PDFs into one big PDF for each Season, but the file would be massive! lol

Alternatively, it is possible to dump all the text into a single text file or RTF file, but there are downsides (such as loss of formatting, and any images that happen to be in the documents).

You are, of course, welcome to do any of that on your own. Just so long as you don't distribute it.

[DariusGreywind]

I could just view the PDFs on my N800, since it's capable of displaying such things, but the Thorhammer stories don't look right on a 4" screen as they are. It's much easier to read after it's ASCIIfied. Perhaps if there was a PDF->PalmDOC converter, but I haven't seen any such program that works. Not sure the images would look quite right at 480x800 (I read stuff in portrait orientation).