Manual in PDF?

What is wrong with the CHM file? Is it that some people don't have software that can read CHM?

You can always go to Dropbox, and open a free account that will hold up to 2GB.
All you need to do then is post here the username and password you chose and anyone can download it.

Note that you don't have to install the desktop application, you can use the browser. The desktop application is only useful if you want to sync several computers.

NEXT PROJECT IS TO CONVERT THE WIKI AND GREAT OTHER INTERESTING LEARNING TEXTS NOT INCLUDED IN CHM

The CHM is very good and very interesting, but this is only the begginning to learn, there are MUCH more very interesting and very important information inside the FF Wiki and other parts of the forum that could be joined toghether and make also a NEW single PDF file that include this too.

After making the previous post I wanted to separate this text above, so i have put it it in a new post but found that it was put IN A NEW PAGE, so is no longer toghether so I have decided to copy again the text from my previous post here below.

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Andrew B. wrote: If there is anyone here who is already signed up at a file sharing site, or you want to host it yourself, I'll give you the PDF to post there.

Do you have a already a converted PDF file of the FF CHM Help file ?

Does Include the hiperlinks and they are active ?

I was signed recently to a file sharing because I needed to send some big files to another person, but my subscription ended on 31 January 2012, so I can´t help.

But Morgantao have given a very good suggestion and idea.

Could you please tell more about HOW you have converted the CHM to PDF ? Because I have use the Adobe Acrobat PDF X Pro and it works very well.

BUT then after looking at the result I did find that although the result was very good:

1 - The links was just highlighted and kept in blue BUT not active and working

2 - The images (as it happens in the CHM) takes a great part of the page and the text is NOT wrapped around the image so a lot of space is lost, specially in large preview components as bomber

3 - The text for my own and personal taste is too compressed and too joined toghether, and I wanted to give it a fresh air and that it could breath and be easier to read and remember, and separate the topics.

4 - Organize the finish and ends of pages so is kept the topic as much as possible in a tidy and good way across the pages, so the titles does not appear at the end of the page and the rest of the page in another different page.

5 - Optimize it in a way that you could use it on your computer BUT also thinking in reducing space if you want probably to print it, so I want to keep the same text in 12 points size BUT taking as less space as possible BUT as said keeping it well separated and easier readable. SO it will be probably less pages and more greener.

6 - From my personal opinion, I do not think is needed to have the Obsolete components part of the CHM guide BECAUSE I have compared it and it has the same information as in the ACTUAL and NEWEST component, so why spend more than 80 pages on this when from my point of view is useless?

This is what I mean when I above have posted the text below.

I have already made 240 pages and have around 100 pages more to go, and tomorrow 2 February Thursday night I will be able to continue working on this.

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SpaceRay wrote: Now thanks to you I have a bigger and better plan for the FF Help conversion, and after the Acrobat PDF conversion, I converted again to WORD and I am changing it MUCH better than before, and I am reorganizing the texts inside the file because I do not like that the text is SO tight and compressed, and for me is much harder to read, so I am separating the lines that I feel could be separated to read and understand them better

I'm wondering if maybe after converting the CHM to PDF you could use Adobe Indesign to edit all you want, while preserving the active links and having the text wrap around pictures.

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Andrew B. wrote: Quote 1 - The links was just highlighted and kept in blue BUT not active and working Maybe because you printed to PDF.

YES !!! YES !!! YES !!! You are absolutely and truly right !!!! Thanks very much for solving the mistery, with only 6 words you have helped me much

I have tried Acrobat X Pro and other software, and it seems that many use the "Print to PDF" conversion as the best way to do it and get the best result.

And now that you have said this, I have seen the light and found the solution

Of course I did NOT think at all that if you use "PRINT to PDF" even if it not for printing it on paper, the file result will be really like it has been PRINTED in real virtual paper, so it would act and feel like one too, so is not possible at all that any active link could survive.

Regretably I will NOT make a new conversion WITHOUT using the "Print to PDF" as I have already converted 320 pages of the CHM conversion in Word (CMH---> PDF---> Word), and will not start again.

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Morgantao wrote: I'm wondering if maybe after converting the CHM to PDF you could use Adobe Indesign to edit all you want, while preserving the active links and having the text wrap around pictures.

The problem is WHICH software will let you convert from CHM to PDF including and keeping the active links AND also deleting automatically all the huge blank spaces that are inside the CHM file as it happens very well with Adobe Acrobat X Pro.

If you find the way, as seems Andre B. have done it already, the idea of editing in Adobe Indesign is probably not bad and could work possibly. Do not know because I have only tried the more simple Word.

suceeded in constructing a pdf version of 400 pages with working links

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mabeck suceeded in constructing a pdf version of 400 pages with working links

Good news, as Morgantao have also said, What did you use ?

Would be possible that you could share it with us and upload it to the forum ?

It would help many FF users to learn more in a easier way.

I have had a problem with my version of the Manual near the end, I have nearly all finished (without any workink links) but still have to fix it to be able to share it here.