Re: How to use thumbpdf with makeinfo-generated pdf?

[Charlie Zender]

Hi,

The author of thumbpdf.sty, a widely used (pdf)latex package to generate
thumbnails, says that thumbpdf.sty works with plain tex documents too.
So I tried

@tex
\input thumbpdf.sty
@end tex

but ran into some errors with undefined commands in thumbpdf.sty.
I gave up at this point because I am not a texpert, but it might be a
promising route to follow for someone who is.

Charlie

Karl Berry wrote:
>     Any other ways to get thumbnails into pdf from TeXInfo?
>
> There is unfortunately no support for thumbnails in the current Texinfo,
> in pdf or any other format.  It's never come up before, actually.  What
> kind of document are you working on?  (Just wondering.)

The document is a User's Guide for a toolkit for scientific data 
manipulation called NCO.

> All I can think of to do as a workaround is hack texinfo.tex to refer to
> the thumbnail instead of the full image.  I've never used pdf thumbnails
> and don't know any specifics :(.
>
> Sorry I don't have a better answer.  Perhaps someone else (Stephen?) has
> worked on this?
>
> k
>
> .

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Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100