| From: | Peter Mount <peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>, <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PDF docs |
| Date: | 2002-12-02 15:01:20 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0212021459390.1537-100000@heather.retep.org.uk |
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On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)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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