From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-doc+bounces-1092-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1L5zMT-0005u3-Dv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:10:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7106BE034C; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:10:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f20.google.com (mail-qy0-f20.google.com [209.85.221.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C953E034C for <gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:10:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so2434424qyk.10 for <gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:10:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=/3JXgRiz0DyXLQSTGyZFsx8hyIq5Z7DepGpcdRV8IEw=; b=bisfFxdtRxbMK4TdYfsJSpS/Gamup2LYxZIwBcZDb6SPgeYmj1HzbYQ9QemeH3JiVv eM6KSvlgoQAI6xwlklY3M0LcqDVmV/3KDfTWj2pmRRzKPE6bQiLWFDMqEekenaU1CaH2 DxfFeavKDcL/UMLBAJxdH5qv3mCsyW64oCYyc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=UTKqWUkTt1VD9jafmFBpwTGiu0NL/sVyNuVbbgpwWGCvCGZy+LXJXXaE0ZBbSGiRzW rCU5oGau2wkVVNNGaCOa5k0fzFTooI/VmPBKlT+fyY0tveSa1Xsq4Mlpzk6fJhwlpY5p u5zc3gKs9j1I5MepNV9XnBlTZCPUKpZt6/FB0= Received: by 10.214.11.11 with SMTP id 11mr7533522qak.308.1227863403926; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:10:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.214.242.9 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:10:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4511e6e80811280110habee5c6t43647ad471ffe946@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:10:03 +0900 From: "Douglas Anderson" <douglasjanderson@gmail.com> To: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Handbook,Devbook,etc to PDF conversation In-Reply-To: <492FB3A2.1010705@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-doc+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-doc+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-doc+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-doc.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_63677_9729062.1227863403928" References: <c83f72c70811280043x355fd3afw6b26a11584afe6fa@mail.gmail.com> <492FB1F4.8000808@gentoo.org> <4511e6e80811280057o591a948cvbd084205f21f13f2@mail.gmail.com> <492FB3A2.1010705@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: bf7fcaf1-01dc-461b-ad19-58268a6e6fb5 X-Archives-Hash: d251f0e55a67996c993fd034fd027902 ------=_Part_63677_9729062.1227863403928 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 ------=_Part_63677_9729062.1227863403928 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Jan Kundr=E1t <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a hre= f=3D"mailto:jkt@gentoo.org">jkt@gentoo.org</a>></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 > pdf<br> </blockquote> <br></div> 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.<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't open HTML in OpenOffice, thank you), w= e can give it a try.<br> <br> But there's no point in generating "a PDF" 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 && more beer > /dev/mouth<br> <br> </div></div></blockquote></div>Jan, sorry I kind of overquoted in my last m= ail, 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 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> ------=_Part_63677_9729062.1227863403928--