Is there a PDF version of the PostgreSQL 7.3.2 documentation ?

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:10:43 +0200,
Bruno Baguette <bruno.baguette@netcourrier.com> wrote:

Hello,

I would like to know if there is a PDF version of the PostgreSQL 7.3.2
documentation ? If yes, where can i found this PDF file ?

From a US mirror:
ftp://ftp.us.postgresql.org/doc/current

There are separate pdf files for different parts of the documentation there.

Bruno Baguette wrote:

I would like to know if there is a PDF version of the PostgreSQL 7.3.2
documentation ? If yes, where can i found this PDF file ?

I built and posted a copy here:
http://www.joeconway.com/

You can make them for yourself if you have the documentation build tool
chain, e.g.:

cd doc/src/sgml
make admin.pdf developer.pdf reference.pdf
make programmer.pdf tutorial.pdf user.pdf

HTH,

Joe

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 17:46, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:10:43 +0200,
Bruno Baguette <bruno.baguette@netcourrier.com> wrote:

Hello,

I would like to know if there is a PDF version of the PostgreSQL 7.3.2
documentation ? If yes, where can i found this PDF file ?

From a US mirror:

ftp://ftp.us.postgresql.org/doc/current

There are separate pdf files for different parts of the documentation there.

In spite of the name of that directory, those are all for 7.2. There
are still no official pdf or ps files for 7.3 anywhere.

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Hello,

"CoL" <col@mportal.hu> a �crit dans le message de news:
b7kk8m$2s6a$1@news.hub.org...

Wow, cool!:) Why
http://www.joeconway.com/postgres_pdf-7.3.2.tar.gz

But at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/#pdfs they aren't there. Why?

C.

I agree with "CoL", theses PDF files should be available from the Docs part
of the PostgreSQL website (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/).

Maybe the PostgreSQL webmaster should ask the Joe Conway approval in order
to copy theses PDF files ???

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On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 03:15, Bruno Baguette wrote:

Hello,

"CoL" <col@mportal.hu> a écrit dans le message de news:
b7kk8m$2s6a$1@news.hub.org...

Wow, cool!:) Why
http://www.joeconway.com/postgres_pdf-7.3.2.tar.gz

But at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/#pdfs they aren't there. Why?

C.

I agree with "CoL", theses PDF files should be available from the Docs part
of the PostgreSQL website (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/).

Maybe the PostgreSQL webmaster should ask the Joe Conway approval in order
to copy theses PDF files ???

Joe,
any problems with me putting this up on the www site? I'll try to
coordinate to get it on the ftp mirrors as well.

Robert Treat

Robert Treat wrote:

any problems with me putting this up on the www site? I'll try to
coordinate to get it on the ftp mirrors as well.

No problems with me -- all I did was run `make` ;-)

However, see the section "Applixware RTF Cleanup" at this url:
http://www.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/doc-build.html

It refers to cleanup for hardcopy purposes, but I thought the "official"
pdfs were made from the cleaned up postscript file in the past. Please
note that I did *not* do the clean up steps; I literally just ran `make
filename.pdf`

Joe

Joe Conway wrote:

Robert Treat wrote:

any problems with me putting this up on the www site? I'll try to
coordinate to get it on the ftp mirrors as well.

No problems with me -- all I did was run `make` ;-)

However, see the section "Applixware RTF Cleanup" at this url:
http://www.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/doc-build.html

It refers to cleanup for hardcopy purposes, but I thought the "official"
pdfs were made from the cleaned up postscript file in the past. Please
note that I did *not* do the clean up steps; I literally just ran `make
filename.pdf`

I thought those cleanups weren't used anymore. There were for old
Applix bugs, and we don't use Applix anymore.

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On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 11:10, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Joe Conway wrote:

Robert Treat wrote:

any problems with me putting this up on the www site? I'll try to
coordinate to get it on the ftp mirrors as well.

No problems with me -- all I did was run `make` ;-)

I tried to do that with CVS head (understanding I really should check
out the 7.3 branch for what we're talking about) and it failed for me,
something about PARA type not allowed. I also notice that the cvs build
instructions suggest the names for the old books, this will need to be
changed at some point I think.

However, see the section "Applixware RTF Cleanup" at this url:
http://www.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/doc-build.html

It refers to cleanup for hardcopy purposes, but I thought the "official"
pdfs were made from the cleaned up postscript file in the past. Please
note that I did *not* do the clean up steps; I literally just ran `make
filename.pdf`

I thought those cleanups weren't used anymore. There were for old
Applix bugs, and we don't use Applix anymore.

I thought I remember someone (Peter? Thomas Lockhart?) mentioning that
there was some cleanup they did for the 7.2 pdf's. I'm still inclined
to just post these as it seems unlikely that whomever did them before
will have availability to do it again, and after skimming through the
ones Joe built I don't see anything atrocious.

Robert Treat

Robert Treat writes:

I thought I remember someone (Peter? Thomas Lockhart?) mentioning that
there was some cleanup they did for the 7.2 pdf's. I'm still inclined
to just post these as it seems unlikely that whomever did them before
will have availability to do it again, and after skimming through the
ones Joe built I don't see anything atrocious.

There are two known ways of creating print versions of the documentation:
1: -> RTF -> manual cleanup in some wordprocessor -> save as PS/PDF; 2 ->
TeX file -> pdfjadetex. I don't know what kind of artifacts the version 1
output contains, but over time version 2 got good enough that we started
using it some time ago. The output isn't "perfect", but I wouldn't worry
about it. If you're so inclined, you can do manual fixes in the
intermediate TeX file.

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