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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:10:03 +0900
From: "Douglas Anderson" <douglasjanderson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Handbook,Devbook,etc to PDF conversation
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Jan Kundr=E1t <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 lik=
e
> 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 handboo=
k
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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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Jan Kundr=E1t <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a hre=
f=3D"mailto:jkt@gentoo.org">jkt@gentoo.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div cl=
ass=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left:=
 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex=
;">
<div class=3D"Ih2E3d">Douglas Anderson wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
But there should be plenty of ways to go html &gt; pdf<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div>
We don&#39;t want to provide a PDF just &quot;so that we have a PDF&quot;, =
so printing a web page to PDF is not really an option.<br>
<br>
If you want to improve your XSLT-FO skills, feel free to write the styleshe=
ets; if you manage to use only the technologies that are already available =
on our web nodes (nope, we won&#39;t open HTML in OpenOffice, thank you), w=
e can give it a try.<br>

<br>
But there&#39;s no point in generating &quot;a PDF&quot; without all fancy =
features like a book-like layout, inter-document links etc.<br>
<br>
Why do you *need* the PDF at all?<div><div></div><div class=3D"Wj3C7c"><br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
-jkt<br>
<br>
-- <br>
cd /local/pub &amp;&amp; more beer &gt; /dev/mouth<br>
<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div>Jan, sorry I kind of overquoted in my last m=
ail, I wasn&#39;t really replying to you. Obviously gentoo isn&#39;t going =
to open pages in oo! I was saying to Behzat that, for whatever reason, if h=
e needs a one-off copy of the handbook in PDF, there <i>are</i> a few ways =
to make it by going off the html version instead of straight from guidexml =
to pdf.<br>
<br>-Doug<br>

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