PDF versions (showing the full graphic layout) of the manual Preach My Gospel (preachmygospel.lds.org) 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.
You can access the PDF online in English and in languages.
You can access PDF versions of many items in the Gospel Library in two ways:
- Visit the PDF page.
- When viewing an item, click Download (either for the entire item or a chapter), then choose Text.
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.
I’m so happy to find Preach My Gospel in Chinese on-line! And also that I can copy and paste from it (other Chinese .pdf’s I’ve seen like the priesthood manuals must be using some different encoding, as many of the characters come out garbled).
Question: I would love to get online copies of Preach My Gospel, scriptures, and other publication in on-line form in Simplified Chinese characters, since that is what I am studying. Are there any plans in the works for this, or are there any out there already?
Thanks. -John
My previous message seemed to indicate that I could copy and paste from the Chinese “Preach My Gospel” PDF, but I just downloaded a fresh copy, and couldn’t. I looked into it further, and apparently you can create .pdf files that use “glyph” table indexes instead of embedding actual UTF-8 or some other reasonable encoding of the characters. This seems to be a pretty dumb move on the part of Adobe, but you can create PDF’s that do embed the actual character encodings. May I request that you regenerate all the .pdf files using UTF-8 embedded characters so that copying and extracting text is possible?
My particular usage is that I’m trying to extract the characters used in the text for the purpose of creating a vocabulary list for study, but I’m sure lots of people would have need of copying and pasting text, such as in preparing lessons and so forth.
Thanks.
-John
John, thanks for the suggestion. I’ll pass it along to the web publishing team.
Why don’t page numbers show up? To tell a class references for any subject is impossible for kindles and phones.Thanks
Is there a Mandarin pinyin version or a Mandarin simplified character version of Preach My Gospel available anywhere?
MaeCile,
See http://mormonsandchina.org/?lang=zh-hans
Larry
Is there a pdf or electronic version of Preach My Gospel for Cantonese (romanized)?
I don’t know of a PDF version, but you can order the printed book at https://store.lds.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product3_715839595_10557_3074457345616706210_-1__195532
I can’t seem to find any of the PDFs of Preach My Gospel in all the languages that I used to be able to see . . . can someone help me find them?
Thanks,
Lee