There are "patched QT" and "unpatched QT" versions of wkhtmltopdf (see http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/). I am using V0.9.9 for Windows which is "patched QT".
There is one drawback with wkhtmltopdf: At least on my Netbook (Win7 64bit, Pentium 1.5GHz) it is very slow. It takes more than 3 hrs to create git-doc.pdf. If you want to have a quick look on the resulting pdf just clone https://github.com/tacker66/git-docpdf.git. This repo contains a current version of user.manual.pdf and git-doc.pdf ----- Original Nachricht ---- Von: Jeff King <p...@peff.net> An: Thomas Ackermann <th.acke...@arcor.de> Datum: 06.10.2012 21:32 Betreff: Re: [Patch 0/5] Create single PDF for all HTML files > On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 05:51:15PM +0200, Thomas Ackermann wrote: > > > I wanted to have a single PDF file which contains the complete Git > documentation > > (except user-manual) for easier reading on my tablet. The simplest way to > do > > this was by using wkhtmltopdf which can combine a set of HTML files into a > sinlge > > PDF file and also apply some reformatting. To this end HTML files for all > the missing > > files in Documentation/technical and Documentation/howto and also for all > the > > release notes in Documentation/RelNotes were created. > > It seems like a reasonable goal. I do not have a strong opinion on the > approach or how the final output looks, but I wasn't able to actually > get output at all after applying your patches. Running "make fullpdf" > (after installing dblatex) got me: > > The switch --book, is not support using unpatched qt, and will be > ignored.The switch --footer-html, is not support using unpatched qt, > and will be ignored.The switch --disable-external-links, is not > support using unpatched qt, and will be ignored. > > after which wkhtmltopdf began pegging my CPU. I let it run for 10 > minutes before giving up. > > Another way of doing this would be to format the individual troff > manpages into dvi or postscript, convert that into pdf, and then > concatenate that. Something like: > > for i in *.[157]; do > man -Tdvi -l "$i" >"$i.dvi" > dvipdfm "$i" > done > pdftk *.[157].pdf cat output full.pdf > > works for me, though obviously that does not handle some of the non-man > items you included. No idea on how the output compares to yours, but > it's something you may want to look at. > > -Peff > --- Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
