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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Jan Kundrát <jkt@g.o> wrote: |
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> Douglas Anderson wrote: |
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>> But there should be plenty of ways to go html > pdf |
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> We don't want to provide a PDF just "so that we have a PDF", so printing a |
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> web page to PDF is not really an option. |
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> If you want to improve your XSLT-FO skills, feel free to write the |
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> stylesheets; if you manage to use only the technologies that are already |
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> available on our web nodes (nope, we won't open HTML in OpenOffice, thank |
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> you), we can give it a try. |
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> But there's no point in generating "a PDF" without all fancy features like |
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> a book-like layout, inter-document links etc. |
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> Why do you *need* the PDF at all? |
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> Cheers, |
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> -jkt |
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> cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth |
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> Jan, sorry I kind of overquoted in my last mail, I wasn't really replying |
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to you. Obviously gentoo isn't going to open pages in oo! I was saying to |
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Behzat that, for whatever reason, if he needs a one-off copy of the handbook |
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in PDF, there *are* a few ways to make it by going off the html version |
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instead of straight from guidexml to pdf. |
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-Doug |