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


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