Again Greg, that's 30 seconds of someone else's time.  But it's really
more than that, since it would also have to be someone's
responsibility to keep said PDF updated with the Cookbook, which
changes often, sometimes hourly.  Not to mention that it exists in a
dozen languages.  So that's creating an uploading 12 PDFs anywhere
from once a week to once a day.  Gets to be over 30 seconds pretty
quickly.

But that ignores the larger problem, which is this: by continually
pressing the issue, you're essentially trying to take your own problem
and make it someone else's.  This is not cool.  Now the beauty of Open
Source, that I've found, is that when you have a problem, rather than
trying to get someone else to fix it for you, you fix it for
yourself.  Not only for yourself, but for everyone.

So Greg, you've now been presented with an opportunity, and thank God
there is more than one way to convert HTML to PDF (html2pdf anyone?).
Once you are able to solve this problem for yourself, you could not
only share the benefits with everyone, you could even automate it so
that we never have to solve this problem again.  I know everyone on
the team would be very grateful, especially John.

Just my two pennies.  Think about it.

On Mar 9, 8:51 am, Greg Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> with add due respect, Chris..  How much time would be wasted creating
> a PDF?  30 seconds?
>
> I would gladly do it if my PDF writer didn't crap out after page 2 of
> the document.
>
> On Mar 8, 11:01 pm, "Chris Hartjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Mech7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >  The API in pdf would be nice too :p
>
> > A pony to ride would be nice as well, but that's not happening either.
>
> > The API is likely to change before 1.2 is labeled as being final, so I
> > would say providing a PDF of it is a waste.
>
> > The Cookbook is a "living and breathing document", so again, creating
> > a PDF of that would be a waste of time as well.
>
> > Just my opinion.
>
> > --
> > Chris Hartjes
> > Internet Loudmouth
> > Motto for 2008: "Moving from herding elephants to handling snakes..."
> > @TheKeyBoard:http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard
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