[vtkusers] [vtk-developers] Request for Feedback: VTK Textbook Strawman

Andrew Maclean andrew.amaclean at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 19:02:41 EDT 2018


I'll look at the equations in the next week or so.
Looks pretty good so far.
I guess the key thing is that it should be easy to update so the book can
be modernised.


Andrew Maclean

On 30 Mar 2018 07:34, "Bill Lorensen" <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:

Turns out I can auto-generate links to figures during the scraping
process. I'll try tonight.


Bill


On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
wrote:
> pandoc extracts them. The problem is the pdf was created from
> framemaker output and the drawn figures are not made up of one thing.
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:11 PM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> If you don't yet have a way to extract figures from the text, the
"poppler"
>> package has a "pdfimages" tool for this:
>>
>>  pdfimages -j book.pdf /outdir/prefix
>>
>> With the "-j" flag, all jpegs in the pdf are dumped as prefix-xxxx.jpg,
and
>> all other figures as prefix-xxxx.pbm.
>>
>>  - David
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 1:45 PM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Andras,
>>>
>>> I think I could automate link between figure references and the figures.
>>> I'll take a look.
>
>
>
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