[Bf-docboard] PDF Version of Manual

[Dirk Hünniger]

Hi,
Well then my job is not that much needed here. I also got a fully 
automatted mode. The only problem is that the templates don't look 
fancy. But since you rebuild once a month it is not feasable to me to do 
that when implementing templates manueally. If you got an automatted 
build process you still could build my fully automatted version too. The 
latest package I put into debian does work with your wiki. You can get 
it here

http://packages.debian.org/de/sid/mediawiki2latex

You can call it like this

mediawiki2latex -u 
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Introduction -o output.pdf

I currently don't do autobuilds anywhere and I am not planning to do so. 
So for now the debian package is the only thing I can offer you. If you 
once reach a state where you documenation does not change rapidly 
anymore I will be happy to make one version and update it every two years.
Yours Dirk



On 28.12.2013 16:44, m.ardito wrote:
> hi I already do a pdf version updated monthly, with a faster method, 
> completely automated. it takes less than 1 hour so for sure it could 
> be far from optimal.
>
> see 
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Introduction/Downloads
>
> you could add your version too...
>
> Marco
>
> "Dirk Hünniger" <dirk.hunniger at googlemail.com> ha scritto:
>
>     Hello,
>     I am interested in making a PDF version of the current Blender Manual. I
>     already made one for the old one which is hosted on wikibooks.
>
>     https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro
>     https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/BlenderDocumentation.pdf
>
>     I tested my tool on the blender wiki and found out I can generate PDFs.
>     So the question is: Would you like that? And the second question is, is
>     your content quite stable, since it will take me a full week to make the
>     PDF it would not make much sense to redo the job soon. Stable means to
>     me that the template definitions in the wiki don't change much anymore,
>     since I need to take care of each of them manuelly in order to get the
>     best possible results, and this
>     accounts for 90% of the time I need to
>     spend for making the PDF.
>     Yours Dirk
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