Обсуждение: PDF docs
Who generated the PDF docs for 7.2? Remember how it was done? Is there a script somewhere for it? Vince. -- http://www.meanstreamradio.com http://www.unknown-artists.com Internet radio: It's not file sharing, it's just radio.
Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> writes: > Who generated the PDF docs for 7.2? Remember how it was done? Is > there a script somewhere for it? Thomas has always done that in the past. There is some basic info about it in the docs: http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/doc-build.html (see B.3.3), but I got the impression that he always did a great deal of manual tweaking in the process. regards, tom lane
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> writes: > > Who generated the PDF docs for 7.2? Remember how it was done? Is > > there a script somewhere for it? > > Thomas has always done that in the past. There is some basic info > about it in the docs: > http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/doc-build.html > (see B.3.3), but I got the impression that he always did a great deal > of manual tweaking in the process. IIRC tables didn't format correctly (occasionally split over pages). Also (not sure if previous post made it), the docbook->PDF generated badly implemented files (~30% bigger than need be) [caused by pdftex]. Peter
>>>Who generated the PDF docs for 7.2? Remember how it was done? Is >>>there a script somewhere for it? >>Thomas has always done that in the past. There is some basic info >>about it in the docs: >>http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/doc-build.html >>(see B.3.3), but I got the impression that he always did a great deal >>of manual tweaking in the process. The amount of tweaking went way down in the last couple of releases since I identified the misformed but easily fixed rtf (in the opinion of ApplixWare) generated by OpenJade. Look at doc/src/sgml/fixrtf for a little utility to do that. OpenOffice seems to be happy with the rtf, though I can't remember if I applied "fixrtf" first. However, I did not generate documents for 7.2. Folks seemed to have concluded that it was not a useful feature and were not willing to accomodate it in the release process, so I stopped doing that. Peter E. generated documents automatically for 7.2 (using tex rather than rtf->word processor->ps) and it has the deficiencies noted below as one would expect since they are well known issues to the OpenJade community. The "manual tweaking" is a requirement for high-quality docs no matter what path you choose; hopefully someone will realize that and decide to put in some work. > IIRC tables didn't format correctly (occasionally split over pages). > Also (not sure if previous post made it), the docbook->PDF generated badly > implemented files (~30% bigger than need be) [caused by pdftex].
Vince Vielhaber writes: > Who generated the PDF docs for 7.2? Remember how it was done? Is > there a script somewhere for it? I created the ones for 7.2. I just used 'gmake admin.pdf' etc. after some heavy stylesheet hacking, but I hope that that won't be necessary again. I'll look into it this week. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Vince Vielhaber writes: > > > Who generated the PDF docs for 7.2? Remember how it was done? Is > > there a script somewhere for it? > > I created the ones for 7.2. I just used 'gmake admin.pdf' etc. after some > heavy stylesheet hacking, but I hope that that won't be necessary again. > I'll look into it this week. Great! Thanks! Vince. -- http://www.meanstreamradio.com http://www.unknown-artists.com Internet radio: It's not file sharing, it's just radio.