Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:

> creating the PDF manual from plain HTML doesn't lead to good results
> IMHO, e.g. your version has rather large fonts, 'prev' and 'next' links
> on the pages and still one page per function
> 
> IMHO a PDF version is only usefull if it is optimized for printing

Yes, exactly. I have just build PDF using DSSSL stylesheets. You can
look on result at 
http://www.kosek.cz/temp/manual.pdf

It's about 5,6 MB. I used common Jade with output to RTF and then MS
Word and Adobe Distiller to get PDF. I switched off interdocument links
as they increase size of file significantly and I don't think that
people want to use PDF as hypertext if they have more convenient HTML or
HTML Help version of PHPDoc. However I left bookmarks in a file. So PDF
is quite usable for printing if anyone wants spend 3000 sheets of paper. 

I didn't know that you guys had problems with creating PDFs. You
probably used jadetex which is not enough robust (especially on
documents larger then several hundreds of pages) and supported. If you
like and of you think that PDFs can be useful for someone I can time to
time generate them. I'm not sure if Jade and Word will handle correctly
all languages, but at least latin based ones shouldn't cause problems. 

One year ago I also tried to get PDF via XSL-FO and FOP and PassiveTeX.
I didn't remember details, but I was successful in general.

                                        Jirka

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