On Thursday 15 November 2001 11:11 pm, you wrote: > > From: James A Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Thursday 15 November 2001 10:23 pm, you wrote: > > > There was a rather old pdf of the docs in the dist/httpd/ directory. I > > > moved it to old, because it is really too out of date to be useful and > > > I received a complaint about it in the bug database. I don't > > > > think we have > > > > > any method of creating a decent pdf version of the docs. > > > > Well, if someone has a copy of Acrobat, it can turn a snapshot of the WWW > > site into a PDF, images, links and all. Alternatively, you could > > probably do > > something via Postscript and Ghostscript? > > I have tried it. I don't think the results are worth distributing. It > winds up being HUGE, and more troublingly, completely out of order.
Huge? Hmmm.... in theory, it shouldn't be (much) bigger than the source... > Acrobat has some algorithm to discover links and add them in, but it does > not correspond to what we would think of as a nature order. I have thought > of two potential solutions: > > 1. Manually reording each time we create a PDF. This would be hours of > work, and there is no way I am going to do it. Ouch. Yes, that one's out, unless someone has insane amounts of time free :) > 2. Create a comprehensive site-map that lists every page on the site in the > order we think they should appear. Then conceivably (I haven't tested > this) Acrobat could be instructed to put the pages in the order of the > site-map. Alternatively, perhaps once the docs are in your XML format, a script could generate a LaTeX form, which is then nice and easy to convert to PDF or PostScript? James. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
