PDF format guides

[Karsten Wade]

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 20:46 +0300, John Babich wrote:
> FDP Team:
> PDF creation is a great idea.
> 
> I brought it up in the past, and, until we get it automated
> in the toolchain, I'm glad to produce PDFs via cups-PDF
> and upload them and link them to the page.

Can you post or email me (so I can post) a version of the FC6
Installation Guide done using this method?

Here is the one I built this morning using htmldoc, as per Dimitris
suggestion:

http://people.redhat.com/kwade/fedora/fedora-install-guide-en_US.pdf

I'd like to compare the quality of the two.  I put up the no-chunks HTML
that I used, in case you don't have a build environment handy. :)

http://people.redhat.com/kwade/fedora/fedora-install-guide-en_US.html

> By simply changing settings using "File > Page Setup" in
> Firefox, you can produce pretty clean PDFs.
> 
> Also, using explicit link references in a wiki page also
> makes it easier. (I need to change a few pages I worked on
> to follow this existing guideline).
> 
> This method, although off-line, is clean and simple.
> 
> I also created single-page views and encourage it to be
> adopted as a standard for multi-page docs in the wiki.
> 
> This makes the PDF creation very straightforward.

Right, this is a good idea for Wiki-sourced content.  However, I think
we still want to move documents from Docs/Drafts => XML, rather than
having them at Docs.  I got an email this morning from someone pointing
out that not letting people edit or make comments on a document in Docs
defeats the purpose of having it in a Wiki.  I agree, and want to get
our formally published documents out of the Wiki. :)

- Karsten
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