Hi, Tom Smyth wrote on Tue, May 24, 2022 at 05:02:42PM +0100: > On Tue, 24 May 2022 at 16:54, Gustavo Rios wrote:
>> I would like to download a pdf version of the faq and pf guide >> for openbsd 7.1. I assume you are talking about https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html and https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html . The OpenBSD project does not provide PDF or manual page versions of these documents but only the HTML versions on the web. >> May some one here point me where i could fetch the pdf documentation >> from ? Of course, feel free to use any HTML-to-PDF conversion program to convert these documents from HTML to PDF yourself. > any manual pages that you wish to convert to PDF can be done with PDF > > stuart@ had once recommended the following command for creating a nice pdf > manual of the PF firewall > > man -T pdf pf.conf > pf.conf.pdf Sure, but i doubt that Gustavo is trying to ask about https://man.openbsd.org/pf.conf.5 which is much shorter than https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html and also doesn't include the the rest of the FAQ. The main reason why the FAQ is provided as online HTML documents rather than manual pages is personal preference of the person (tj@) who maintains these documents (for free), and also that he thinks it is easier to get help from others maintaining these documents when they are in HTML format than it would be if they were in manual page format. Around here, it isn't unusual that the person doing the work gets to make most of the decisions involved, unless other developers are strongly opposed to their choices. Yours, Ingo
