On Wednesday 21 January 2009 08:42:43 Luc Saffre wrote:
> On 16.11.2008 19:16, Georg Brandl wrote:
> > Roberto Alsina schrieb:
> >> I posted it in the issue:
> >> http://www.bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issue/27
> >> (...)
> >
> > Many thanks! I'll look at it after 0.5 is out.
>
> I'm not sure whether this fits here, but I'd like to have a possibility
> to produce a PDF version of each HTML page and to include a link to this
> PDF version.
>
> For example, the following page is a relatively official document:
>
>   http://www.vor-cycling.be/de/regeln_kids.html
>
> I converted this manually from the original Word document which is
> updated every year. I'd like to convince the people of this cycling
> association to abandon Word and rely only on the RST version for this
> document. But they also (or mainly) need a printed document, and if they
> just hit Ctrl-P in their browser, then the result is not satisfying. And
> there is (as far as i know) no hope to get it satisfying because HTML
> doesn't yet[1] include page layout instructions like margins, manual
> page breaks, header and footer. If I tell those people that they must
> fiddle with their browser's page layout options each time they want to
> print a copy of this document, then they'll never abandon Word.
>
> [1] In fact CSS 2.0 has page layout options for print media, but most
>     browsers don't implement them:
>     http://de.selfhtml.org/css/eigenschaften/printlayouts.htm
>
> That's why I think that rst2pdf integration might bring a solution.
>
> Before I start digging myself, I ask here whether somebody did already
> work in this direction? Thanks for any feedback!

AFAIK, all there is is what's on that ticket.

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