Re: PDF docs - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Peter Mount
Subject Re: PDF docs
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0212021459390.1537-100000@heather.retep.org.uk
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In response to Re: PDF docs  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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


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