Subject: PerlBook - Complete perl documentation in Acrobat format
From: [email-masked] (William J. Middleton)
Date: 25 Feb 1996 13:32:34 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

I  have uploaded to CPAN a complete book of all of the standard perl
documentation.  It should appear at your favorite site within a few
days.  Get it at 

    ftp://CPAN/authors/William_J_Middleton/perlpdf-5.002g.tar.gz

The entire book is contained in a single Acrobat file, and includes
an Acrobat index.  I append the README.

Bill

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                            PERLBOOK - 5.002gamma

           Complete PERL Documentation in Adobe Acrobat Format
      Brought to you courtesy of Bill Middleton and Adobe Systems, Inc.

  This directory includes the file perlbook.pdf, which contains the
entire standard documentation suite for perl5.  All of the standard
perl modules which include embedded Pod documentation, as well as
the complete set of perl pods are included.

  Most of the hyperlinks which are available in the perl html documentation
can be accessed through this document.  It includes a standard Acrobat
index item for each pod, which can be expanded to view the headers and
main topics for each document within.

  To view this document, you must have one of the Adobe Acrobat (tm)
tools, Acrobat Exchange, or Acrobat Reader.  Acrobat Reader is available
for no charge from the Adobe Systems, Inc. web site:

        <A HREF="http://www.adobe.com/">Get it here!</A>

  If you own Acrobat Exchange, you can also use the enclosed Acrobat Catalog,
which will allow you search the entire document for items of interest.

  This document was created using several steps: 

        - pod2fm, to convert all pods to Adobe FrameMaker Book format.

        - Print to PostScript file from FrameMaker

        - Distill the PostScript file using Acrobat Distiller

        - Index the Acrobat file using Acrobat Catalog

  As the perl documents continue to develop, I'll try to keep this distribution
up to date.  If you are a perl extension author, and wish to make something
like this available for your work, please contact me, and I'll try to find
time to help.

Bill Middleton
[email-masked]