On 3/29/2012 10:47 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: > looking at the very nice Zguide manual (http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all) > and how it was built I stumbled over http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/, > which converts html to pdf. > > I thought I give it a stab and see how the online docs come out in pdf if > processed with wkhtmltopdf. > > I ran those commands, runtime ca 4secs per pdf: > > $ wkhtmltopdf http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gcode/gcode.html > gcode.pdf > $ wkhtmltopdf http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/remap/structure.html > remap.pdf > > Here are the results: > http://static.mah.priv.at/public/gcode.pdf > http://static.mah.priv.at/public/remap.pdf > > Not too bad for all defaults, no trying to improve on anything. There are > issues; remap.pdf cant be opened in MacOS; I didnt get pages with SVG > graphics to convert. > > I'm not suggesting to replace the current approach just yet, but it would be > worth investigating further. > > -m > > I used the wkhtmltopdf binary from here: > http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/detail?name=wkhtmltoimage-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2&can=2&q= > > Michael:
I'd say the default result looks very encouraging. If things go well with my wife this week, I'll get a chance to look for specific defects. Whether or not LinuxCNC ends up taking advantage of this approach, I will be able to use it to great effect elsewhere. Thanks for finding wkhtmltopdf and for testing it with LinuxCNC documentation. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
