How to take Introduction part as pdf in one shot

Question

Hi, I want to take only introduction part as a pdf of each book in one shot. I tried in the option export pdf in which combine book and one book option is there. Otherwise we have to take each introduction part separately. Please suggest me.

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Prabhu_beelagi

Answer 1

I’m not sure there is an easy way to do what you’re asking, but I’m currently developing an “enhanced PrintDraft tool” which will make it easy to do what you need (by just checking one option):

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I’m afraid that this tool isn’t yet ready for wider distribution, but if you still need this to be done, then, you could either: (i) add me to your project as an “Observer” and I could generate the PDF and send it back to you, or (ii) wait until this is ready.

Answer 2

Thank you Mark for your precious reply,
Wow! exactly I want like this. It’s nice to get this tool in print draft. When can we expect this tool in handy? It will make our work very easy. Actually we need PDF frequently for reading, because some of our team members need hard copies.

Comments

Another, much more complicated way of doing this:

1. Hold down the “Ctrl” button while clicking “OK” while you’re creating the PDF.
2. Close the resulting PDF and navigate to the folder \My Paratext Projects\XXX\printdraft (where XXX is your project code).
3. You will see a few files there. The important ones are the text you’re printing (with a .SFM extension) and the printdraft-XXX-BOOK.tex files.
4. Edit the XXX-draft.SFM file in a plain-text editor and delete anything you don’t want (probably anything after the first \v 1 marker.
5. Save that file and then open a command prompt (WinKey-r and type cmd in the open area). Navigate to the same printdraft folder that you had opened earlier.
6. run the command "c:\Program Files (x86)\Paratext 8\xetex\bin\xetex.exe" printdraft-XXX-BOOK.tex

That should create a pdf, but only with the information you leave in the .SFM file.

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Please let me know your e-mail ID. I will send you the links and instructions for the PTXprint tool which now makes this easy to do. It is still “Alpha testing” software, but should allow you to do whatever you need with ease.
Mark

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Thank you so much. My mail Id is [Email Removed]

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Prabhu_beelagi