Gentoo Archives: gentoo-doc

From: "Jan Kundrát" <jkt@g.o>
To: gentoo-doc@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Handbook,Devbook,etc to PDF conversation
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:02:33
Message-Id: 492FB3A2.1010705@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-doc] Handbook,Devbook,etc to PDF conversation by Douglas Anderson
1 Douglas Anderson wrote:
2 > But there should be plenty of ways to go html > pdf
3
4 We don't want to provide a PDF just "so that we have a PDF", so printing
5 a web page to PDF is not really an option.
6
7 If you want to improve your XSLT-FO skills, feel free to write the
8 stylesheets; if you manage to use only the technologies that are already
9 available on our web nodes (nope, we won't open HTML in OpenOffice,
10 thank you), we can give it a try.
11
12 But there's no point in generating "a PDF" without all fancy features
13 like a book-like layout, inter-document links etc.
14
15 Why do you *need* the PDF at all?
16
17 Cheers,
18 -jkt
19
20 --
21 cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth

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Re: [gentoo-doc] Handbook,Devbook,etc to PDF conversation Behzat Erte <b3hzat@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-doc] Handbook,Devbook,etc to PDF conversation Douglas Anderson <douglasjanderson@×××××.com>