Re: Re: Full PDF Manual for 4.2.2

Jirka Kosek wrote:

Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:

creating the PDF manual from plain HTML doesn't lead to good results IMHO, e.g. your version has rather large fonts, 'prev' and 'next' links on the pages and still one page per function IMHO a PDF version is only usefull if it is optimized for printing

Yes, exactly. I have just build PDF using DSSSL stylesheets. You can look on result at http://www.kosek.cz/temp/manual.pdf

yeah, this looks way better :)

It's about 5,6 MB. I used common Jade with output to RTF and then MS Word and Adobe Distiller to get PDF.

still nothing we can do within the automatic builds on the web server :(

One year ago I also tried to get PDF via XSL-FO and FOP and PassiveTeX. I didn't remember details, but I was successful in general.

PassiveTeX is labeled as "proof of concept" for a reason, it isn't a complete FO implementation FOP had serious problems last time i tried it if it has improved over the last 6 month it might be worth another try, have to summon Sebastian ;)