I have a full version of Acrobat 5.05 and will look closer into manually producing a version in the interim. I'll start with 1.4.1 and plan to do the same for 1.5.x
Simon >-----Original Message----- >From: Steve Loughran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 2:06 PM >To: Ant Users List >Subject: Re: Documentation question > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dominique Devienne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'Ant Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:45 AM >Subject: RE: Documentation question > > >> I'm not the best person to answer this particular question, but ANT's >> documentation is not generated from Javadocs, but from XML doc files >> transformed by something (xdoc?) to HTML. > >not yet, right now, it is simple HTML > >> ANT code also has Javadocs of >> course, but until recently this API documentation was never >"published" on >> the official web site. One had to generate it from CVS sources. >> >> So to come back on the original question, you would either >have to enable >> conversion of the XML documentation to PDF using XSLT/FOP >(might not be >> easy... I have no clue if it's even possible), or convert it >to something >> (MIF) that can already be easily converted to PDF, or >finally post-process >> the generated HTML in some way. > >If we had XML documentation, then cocoon could create the docs >and all would >be well. But we dont so you cant. > >The Ant1.6 plan is to use xdoc to create all the ant task >documentation from >special javadoc tags in the source files, by way of xdoclet; >once we also >move any other files to XML then all the docs will be in a >format that you >can fiddle with to your hearts content. > >This will not be in Ant1.5; if you want a PDF version then you >will have to >use acrobat or something similar. > >-steve > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
