On Jun 30, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Nick Burch wrote: > Hi All > > Currently, the POI website is build with Apache Forrest, which allows us to > automatically generate PDF versions of all of our pages, alongside the HTML > version. > > For example, as well as the HTML version of the component overview page: > http://poi.apache.org/overview.html > There's also a downloadable PDF version: > http://poi.apache.org/overview.pdf > > Does anyone out there use these? > > The reason for asking is that the way the project website gets published > needs to change by the end of December (the old box we deploy through is > being disabled), and changing the deployment route may also be a good point > to update how the site is built. A lot of Apache projects now use the Apache > CMS, and Markdown, which makes for quicker edits and allows for easy > contributrions of site fixes from non-committers. The current setup is a > little tricky to get setup, so it takes a while to do site changes (which may > well contribute to fewer of them happening...). > > If we did switch to using markdown + the cms for the site, we'd get quicker > and simpler site builds, but we'd loose the PDF versions we get from Forrset. > The question is - would anyone miss them?
Another way of generating the PDFs would need to be used. So, it is not inconceivable that this may come back at a later date. Perhaps POI could contribute conversion to Word / Powerpoint tools for all CMS users. I'm willing to do a major part of the conversion. Regards, Dave > > Nick > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
