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[JIRA] Commented: (CAY-144) Documentation in PDF

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Thomas Bernhard commented on CAY-144:
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Please reopen this issue.
Now that the docs are WIKI based, this PDF generation should be possible too.
It would be nice if each guide would be a PDF file:
Cayenne_Guide.pdf
Remote_Object_Persistence Guide.pdf
JPA_Guide.pdf
Modeler_Guide.pdf

Having nice PDFs would be a good replacement for the "missing" books.

> Documentation in PDF
> --------------------
>
>                 Key: CAY-144
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/cayenne/browse/CAY-144
>             Project: Cayenne
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Cayenne Documentation
>    Affects Versions: 1.1 [LEGACY], 1.2 [STABLE]
>            Reporter: Joe McDaniel
>            Assignee: Andrus Adamchik
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Getting a printed copy of the documentation is very painful -- there ought to be a .pdf version (or some other way) to print the whole document and to make it searchable.

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Re: [JIRA] Commented: (CAY-144) Documentation in PDF

Posted by Aristedes Maniatis <ar...@maniatis.org>.
On 27/10/2007, at 3:17 AM, Thomas Bernhard wrote:

> What about the authors of the WIKI?
> Confluence can't state that it can export nice PDF documents when they
> "leave much to be desired" :).
> I think there were even plug-ins for it to do various (PDF related  
> too)
> issues.

Personally I can't see the real use for PDF when the html docs are  
nicely interlinked and easy to read. However, if it is something  
you'd like, then perhaps you could investigate some tools to convert  
from html to pdf. That might be the best approach as it is would  
utilise the style sheet work already done on the site.

Note that in the work done earlier this year on the web site included  
style sheets specifically for printing. That's right, go and print  
the front page of the Cayenne site and see how it turns out. Cool...

So perhaps you'd like to investigate some sort of xslt transform or  
ghostscript process to get the pdfs you want. If you come up with  
something that can be automated, I'm sure we'd find a way to have pdf  
downloads available from the Cayenne site.

Cheers
Ari Maniatis



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Re: [JIRA] Commented: (CAY-144) Documentation in PDF

Posted by Thomas Bernhard <tb...@yahoo.com>.

Andrus Adamchik wrote:
> 
> The formatting of the wiki export leaves much to be desired. I am all  
> for providing PDF, but somebody needs to dedicate some time to figure  
> out how to make it work.
> 
What about the authors of the WIKI?
Confluence can't state that it can export nice PDF documents when they
"leave much to be desired" :).
I think there were even plug-ins for it to do various (PDF related too)
issues.

Tom.
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Re: [JIRA] Commented: (CAY-144) Documentation in PDF

Posted by Andrus Adamchik <an...@objectstyle.org>.
The formatting of the wiki export leaves much to be desired. I am all  
for providing PDF, but somebody needs to dedicate some time to figure  
out how to make it work.

Andrus


On Oct 26, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Thomas Bernhard (JIRA) wrote:

> Thomas Bernhard commented on CAY-144:
> -------------------------------------
>
> Please reopen this issue.
> Now that the docs are WIKI based, this PDF generation should be  
> possible too.
> It would be nice if each guide would be a PDF file:
> Cayenne_Guide.pdf
> Remote_Object_Persistence Guide.pdf
> JPA_Guide.pdf
> Modeler_Guide.pdf