PDF versions (showing the full graphic layout) of the manual Preach My Gospel are now available online in the LDS.org Gospel Library in the following languages:
Albanian, Armenian, Bislama, Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cebuano, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Fijian, Finnish, French, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kiribati, Laotian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tongan, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
Because of the complex layout of the Preach My Gospel manual, we have not yet placed the XML text online, pending an upgrade to a newer XML schema. Therefore, you must access this manual temporarily on a special English page or on the individual language pages.
Normally, you can access PDF versions of many items in the Gospel Library in two ways:
- Visit the Gospel Library > Additional Media Formats > PDF index page.
- When viewing an item, click View on the format bar above the text, either at the chapter/article level (to see a PDF of just that chapter/article) or on the table of contents (to see a PDF of the entire item).
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This will be very helpful. I love to be able to print out the pages I need and write on it.
I have one criticism that I want to register. When you do a cut and paste from the pdf version it doesn’t wrap the text in MS Word or Linux Open Office. I have to go in and then use the delete key or backspace to pull the text up to the line in Word. I have extracted several quotes from the manual in to my Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord quote book on my blog as well text from the Religion 130 manual. The good thing about the 130 manual is that it is easier to extract the text from html then look up citations in the pdf version. Can you fix this problem in pdf versions since it causes more work for those who want to use it in various writing. Then you don’t have to open the both versions and go back and forth. I find it a valuable resource. Members can learn a lot of motivational things from the manual. One other thing that would be good is if you have durable links to individual pages so you could shoot straight to that page if you quote in a web based publication now it goest back to the whole document.
@Dr. B.
Unfortunately, there is no way around that limitation of PDF. PDF doesn’t know about paragraphs, so every end of line in a PDF gets translated to a hard line break which is interpreted by most word processors as a new paragraph.
If you want to copy and paste text, you will have more success copying and pasting from the web browser view.
Thanks for sharing this link.
I have the same concern about pdf texts. Pdf is pretty good for see or to print, but it’s a nightmare if you want to extract a quote, a speech o something like that. Because that, I prefer to have also the texts in html, a format easy to manipulate and convert to word, palm’s, electronic devices, etc.
For Mr B. Try to use the console tool: pdftotext (available in linux and mac), if you only want to have the text, it’s the best tool.
ahhh, and thanks for the link.
greeting.
I’m a little surprised that the web site has ‘Preach My Gospel” in Khmer and Laotian, but not Thai. While , like many thai speaking returned missionaries, I can wing it in laotian it would be more fun to be able to have access to a copy in my main mission language.