Comments on: Reference documentation in PDF http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/2009/05/18/reference-documentation-in-pdf/ Just another GNOME Blogs weblog Sat, 22 May 2010 21:36:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Generating multilingual PDF files out of GNOME documentation « Mi blog lah! http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/2009/05/18/reference-documentation-in-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-340 Generating multilingual PDF files out of GNOME documentation « Mi blog lah! Mon, 25 May 2009 19:49:20 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/?p=58#comment-340 [...] Robert describes how to generate PDF files from GNOME documentation source files. [...] [...] Robert describes how to generate PDF files from GNOME documentation source files. [...]

]]> By: Simos Xenitellis: Generating multilingual PDF files out of GNOME documentation | Techie News http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/2009/05/18/reference-documentation-in-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-330 Simos Xenitellis: Generating multilingual PDF files out of GNOME documentation | Techie News Mon, 18 May 2009 15:27:25 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/?p=58#comment-330 [...] Robert describes how to generate PDF files from GNOME documentation source files. [...] [...] Robert describes how to generate PDF files from GNOME documentation source files. [...]

]]> By: bochecha http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/2009/05/18/reference-documentation-in-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-329 bochecha Mon, 18 May 2009 14:37:36 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/?p=58#comment-329 I found this while looking at a way to print web pages to PDF: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ What is good is that you don't need to redefine the style of your document, it uses WebKit and prints the PDF just like the web page is rendered on a web browser. I found this while looking at a way to print web pages to PDF:
http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/

What is good is that you don’t need to redefine the style of your document, it uses WebKit and prints the PDF just like the web page is rendered on a web browser.

]]> By: Simos says… » Blog Archive » Generating multilingual PDF files out of GNOME documentation http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/2009/05/18/reference-documentation-in-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Simos says… » Blog Archive » Generating multilingual PDF files out of GNOME documentation Mon, 18 May 2009 13:18:18 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/?p=58#comment-328 [...] Robert describes how to generate PDF files from GNOME documentation source files. [...] [...] Robert describes how to generate PDF files from GNOME documentation source files. [...]

]]> By: Matthew Barnes http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/2009/05/18/reference-documentation-in-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Matthew Barnes Mon, 18 May 2009 12:19:20 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/?p=58#comment-327 dblatex also works well for user documentation. We use it to generate Evolution User Guide PDFs every six months: http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/doc/evolution226.pdf (2.6M). dblatex also works well for user documentation. We use it to generate Evolution User Guide PDFs every six months: http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/doc/evolution226.pdf (2.6M).

]]> By: Stefan Kost http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/2009/05/18/reference-documentation-in-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Stefan Kost Mon, 18 May 2009 07:50:31 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/?p=58#comment-326 I have some boilerplate in gtk-doc (git) for selecting different outputformats. Unfortunately its not that easy. gtk-doc support docbook sgml and docbook xml. dblatex is for docbook sgml (which I like to deprecate) and does not produce anything that error in jade for me. For docbook xml one would need to use apache fop, but neither 0.94 or 0.95 not the latests devel snapshot does really work (I filed bugs, but nothing happens). IMHO the opensource software stack fro producing pdf from docbook is in pretty bad shape. gtk-doc sources have a TODO file which gives details to what works and what does not. One question though - what distro are you using? If you like to get this feature into gtk-doc, please come to irc #gtkdoc on gnome-irc. I have some boilerplate in gtk-doc (git) for selecting different outputformats. Unfortunately its not that easy. gtk-doc support docbook sgml and docbook xml. dblatex is for docbook sgml (which I like to deprecate) and does not produce anything that error in jade for me. For docbook xml one would need to use apache fop, but neither 0.94 or 0.95 not the latests devel snapshot does really work (I filed bugs, but nothing happens). IMHO the opensource software stack fro producing pdf from docbook is in pretty bad shape.
gtk-doc sources have a TODO file which gives details to what works and what does not. One question though – what distro are you using? If you like to get this feature into gtk-doc, please come to irc #gtkdoc on gnome-irc.

]]> By: racarr http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/2009/05/18/reference-documentation-in-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-325 racarr Mon, 18 May 2009 07:25:33 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/?p=58#comment-325 You can pretty easy, as all that is required is running "dblatex -T db2latex bla-docs.xml". You can pretty easy, as all that is required is running “dblatex -T db2latex bla-docs.xml”.

]]> By: Juanjo Marin http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/2009/05/18/reference-documentation-in-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-324 Juanjo Marin Mon, 18 May 2009 06:37:18 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/?p=58#comment-324 I'm impressed. It looks pretty good and professional ;) I’m impressed. It looks pretty good and professional ;)

]]> By: Javier http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/2009/05/18/reference-documentation-in-pdf/comment-page-1/#comment-323 Javier Mon, 18 May 2009 04:59:07 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/racarr/?p=58#comment-323 Hello! Thank you for the tip. It would be great if you can automatize the pdf generation. (with autotools, for example) Do you know if it's possible? Hello!

Thank you for the tip.
It would be great if you can automatize the pdf generation. (with autotools, for example)

Do you know if it’s possible?

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