Re: [gentoo-doc] Handbook,Devbook,etc to PDF conversation

["Douglas Anderson" <douglasjanderson@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Jan Kundrát <jkt@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Douglas Anderson wrote:
>
>> But there should be plenty of ways to go html > pdf
>>
>
> We don't want to provide a PDF just "so that we have a PDF", so printing a
> web page to PDF is not really an option.
>
> If you want to improve your XSLT-FO skills, feel free to write the
> stylesheets; if you manage to use only the technologies that are already
> available on our web nodes (nope, we won't open HTML in OpenOffice, thank
> you), we can give it a try.
>
> But there's no point in generating "a PDF" without all fancy features like
> a book-like layout, inter-document links etc.
>
> Why do you *need* the PDF at all?
>
>
> Cheers,
> -jkt
>
> --
> cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth
>
> Jan, sorry I kind of overquoted in my last mail, I wasn't really replying
to you. Obviously gentoo isn't going to open pages in oo! I was saying to
Behzat that, for whatever reason, if he needs a one-off copy of the handbook
in PDF, there *are* a few ways to make it by going off the html version
instead of straight from guidexml to pdf.

-Doug

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