PDFSpeech: Create a PDF Pack of a book on SafariBooksOnline.com

From Safari, print as PDF to the PDFSpeech application. Choose a large paper size for a cleaner look.

PDFSpeech creates a PDF Pack and generates a table of contents with the 12 chapters that were printed into this pack.

SafariBooksOnline.com is an excellent digital library of technical and business books. This tip covers the steps involved in converting The Sketch Handbook to PDF in a few easy steps.

1. Ensure that PDFSpeech is set to Append PDFs.
2. Open the book's title page in Safari.
3. Print, and send as PDF to the PDFSpeech application
4. Use navigation on SafariBooksOnline.com to go to next chapter (or the right arrow shortcut key)
5. Use View > Show Reader in Safari for clean layout 
6. Print, and send as PDF to the PDFSpeech application.

Repeat steps 4-6 for each of the 12 chapters in this book. For long chapters, use a large custom paper size (such as 12x80 inch) to allow more content to fit on one page, and thus avoid unnecessary scrolling across page breaks when reading the PDF in PDFSpeech.

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But why create a PDF Pack at all? A few good reasons:

• PDFs are easy to annotate, from notes to highlighting to freeform markup. 
• PDFs are a universal format, and can be viewed as expected on any device.
• PDF Packs remain editable - you can add or remove pages, and even edit the table of contents using an app like PDFOutliner.
• Using PDFoo, you can link into a precise position in the PDF for taking notes externally. For example, collect links to several graphic design "recipes" across several PDFs in your favorite note-taking app.
• You can use PDFSpeech to zip through the PDF Pack efficiently using text-to-speech technology.