Daniel James wrote:
On 27/05/2008, John Maddock <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> wrote:
First the good news: some libraries already provide PDF's of their docs, for example the regex, math, type_traits and tr1 libraries all have links to the PDF versions of their docs from their title pages.
The pdf links in the math libraries are broken. If it's okay, I'll fix them in trunk and release.
Oh :-( Looks like a missing // in the URL. Yes please do go ahead and fix if you're willing that would be great.
However, if anyone would like help getting their quickbook docs converted to PDF, I'm certainly willing to help with that as I have all the necessary tools etc set up here.
I'd be interested in trying. Are there linux tools available? I think I remember you saying that the only decent ones were commercial.
Right, the only decent FO processor IMO is XEP, it's a Java app so I assume it'll work on Linux but I've never tried it. There's a free edition available that places a discrete banner add at the bottom of each page - see the math docs for example. Actually I seem to recall they offered Boost a free copy of the full product, but we never got our act together with somewhere to host it :-( In any case XEP and Apache FOP are command line compatible so you easily switch between them in your user-config.jam, for simple use cases Apache FOP is fine, but it's pagination routines aren't nearly as good as XEP's for more complex situations. HTH, John.