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

["Behzat Erte" <b3hzat@gmail.com>]

Thanks Douglas,

I want to say this exactly.

Regards,
Behzat.

2008/11/28 Douglas Anderson <douglasjanderson@gmail.com>:
> 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
>