You may want to see the explanation at
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/8906#issuecomment-54889577

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Stuart Budd <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why does Ansible not provide documentation in PDF format?
>
> Other software providers provide  manage to provide PDF versions.
> Red Hat manages to provide PDF versions of their documentation and the
> Linux OS is not static and certainly more complex than Ansible.
> Oracle provides PDF versions of their products documentation.
> CFEngine provides PDF versions of their product documentation.
>
> The vast majority of software providers manage to provide PDF versions of
> their software products.
>  I can not think of any other software provider that does not provide PDF
> versions of documentation.
>
> The Ansible Tower software has a PDF version of the documentation. That is
> not static.
>
> I feel that the reason provided of "changes are constant" is not a real
> reason.
>
> The online documentation is only available online and therefore somewhat
> limited.
> The providing of PDF versions of documentation is really the professional
> thing to do.
>
> Maybe it is worth having a re-think as to the reason why Ansible do not do
> this.
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 13:17:28 UTC, Brian Coca wrote:
>>
>> Docs are available at docs.ansible.com, through the ansible-doc tool
>> and man pages, docs are maintained inside the main ansible repo and
>> within each module.
>>
>> There is no official pdf provided, mostly because it is too static a
>> format and changes are constant as ansible continually grows.
>>
>> --
>> Brian Coca
>>
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