casrou/probtopdf

Turn online textbook into Exam-friendly, offline, searchable PDF

ProbToPdf

Generates an exam-friendly, offline, searchable PDF version of the textbook

H. Pishro-Nik, "Introduction to probability, statistics, and random processes", available at https://www.probabilitycourse.com, Kappa Research LLC, 2014. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Requirements

• ReLaXed

npm i -g relaxedjs

• pdftk

Download PDFtk Server

How to

The program generates a PDF named final.pdf in a folder called book on the Desktop.

Latest generated version

Introduction to Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes - Hossein Pishro-Nik.pdf (2019-03-22)

probtopdf's Issues

Add page-break-inside: avoid; to Definitions, Lemmas, etc.

https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_print_pagebi.asp

Fix bibliography urls

6.2.5 Jensen's Inequality - Fig. 6.2

Figure not showing

about R programming and the conditional CDF

Hi, how I could implement the Conditional PMF of X Given Y using R, please?

Order of pages in merged PDF are incorrect

Correct order:

• Preface
• Chapter pages (including Appendix)
• Bibliography

Invalid math

• 1.3.6 Solved Problems: Random Experiments and Probabilities (Problem 5 + 6)
  

Add bookmarks

https://www.pdflabs.com/blog/export-and-import-pdf-bookmarks/

Add the rest of the chapter page urls to book.json

PDF merging

In continuation of #2:

pdftk has issues with ordering when merging, which results in the page 11_1_1_test getting before 1_1_1_test.

(Can be resolved by prepending a before all two digit pages, eg. a11_1_2, a12_2_1, etc.)

Automatically merging still doesn't work. The issue may be with PowerShell SDK (Opened issue).

Fix local href of references

(Eg. "Equation 11.1" navigates to the equation)

Maybe possible after #5

11.1.2 Basic Concepts of the Poisson Process

Include "hardcoded" problem/lemma/theorem/definition numbering

Figure rendering in chapter 3

Implement progress bar

For example: https://github.com/Mpdreamz/shellprogressbar