[Bf-docboard] wiki --> PDF

[Bart Veldhuizen]

Hi guys,

for encouragement, I'll mention that there is a lot of interest in a  
PDF version of the manual:

http://www.blendernation.com/2006/04/20/download-the-blender-manual/

Cheers,

Bart



Op 26-apr-2006, om 14:55 heeft Alastair Mason het volgende geschreven:

> I took 2 minutes to put you email up on the wiki pritty much as is.  
> hopefully they will give you write access soon and you can change  
> what ever you need to ;)
>
> thanks for you efforts
> al
>
>
> On 4/24/06, none none <lots.of.mailing.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've tidied up my script a little bit so here's the first release, a
> number of things a broke, including but not limited to:
>
> 1) images float around in odd places
> 2) notes dont linewrap for some reason
> 3) long monospaced lines dont line wrap
> 4) tables are not yet implemented
>
> Here are all the files you will need:
>
> http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~ajm/blender/Makefile
> http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~ajm/blender/blender.xsl
> http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~ajm/blender/structure_en.xml
> http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~ajm/blender/structure_it.xml
>
> If you want to see what the result is like so far then have a look at:
>
> http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~ajm/blender/manual_en.pdf
> http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~ajm/blender/manual_it.pdf
>
>
> I was going to make a page on the wiki explaining how to run it but it
> seemed to be protected so I'll give a description here and someone
> with the right level of access can put it on the web.
>
> first you need to download all the html pages for a given translation
> and the images in the uploads directory, this can be done via "make
> download" in the script
>
> then you either run "make en" or "make it" depending on what  
> language you want.
>
> The script requires saxon to run the XSLT script that turns the wiki
> into latex, and then it requires pdflatex to turn the latex into a
> pdf. The "make download" requires wget
>
>
> All that needs to be done now is to fix the few remaining bugs and
> then do a bit of styling on it to make it look a bit more trendy and
> less 1960's maths text book :)
>
> Comments, questions and help are all appreciated
>
> Alex
>
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Bart Veldhuizen
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