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

Todd Martin nztoddler at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 29 20:59:48 EDT 2018


This looks great Bill!     On Friday, March 30, 2018, 12:02:58 PM GMT+13, Andrew Maclean <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 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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