PDF docs

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.

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.
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