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Re: Re: [Patch 0/5] Create single PDF for all HTML files

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Oct 7, 2012, 22:52 UTC
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On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 10:14:28AM +0200, Thomas Ackermann wrote:
> There are "patched QT" and "unpatched QT" versions of wkhtmltopdf
> (see http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/). I am using V0.9.9 for Windows
> which is "patched QT".

That's a definite compatibility question for taking your patches into upstream git.

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> There is one drawback with wkhtmltopdf: At least on my Netbook (Win7 64bit,
> Pentium 1.5GHz) it is very slow. It takes more than 3 hrs to create git-doc.pdf.
> 
> If you want to have a quick look on the resulting pdf just clone 
> https://github.com/tacker66/git-docpdf.git. This repo contains
> a current version of user.manual.pdf and git-doc.pdf

It does look better than the output generated by the "man -Tdvi" loop I posted. It retains more styling from the HTML and it has a nice table of contents. But 3 hours? Yeesh. Mine took 11 seconds.

I wonder if a more sane route is to drop HTML entirely, convert the asciidoc to docbook (which we already do for manpages), and then create a docbook document that is a collection of all elements, which can then be converted to pdf, epub, or whatever. I would not be surprised if somebody has solved this problem before (but it is not really my itch, so I did not look very far).

-Peff
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  1. 0/5 Create single PDF for all HTML filesThomas Ackermann, Oct 6, 2012
  2. 1/5 Fix some asciidoc layout problemsThomas Ackermann, Oct 6, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 6, 2012
  4. Jeff KingOct 6, 2012
  5. Aw: Re: [Patch 1/5] Fix some asciidoc layout problemsThomas Ackermann, Oct 7, 2012
  6. 2/5 Create html documents for all files in Documentation/technicalThomas Ackermann, Oct 6, 2012
  7. Philip OakleyOct 6, 2012
  8. 3/5 Create html documents for all files in Documentation/RelNotesThomas Ackermann, Oct 6, 2012
  9. Philip OakleyOct 6, 2012
  10. Jeff KingOct 6, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoOct 7, 2012
  12. Michael J GruberOct 15, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2012
  14. 4/5 Create html documents for all files in Documentation/howtoThomas Ackermann, Oct 6, 2012
  15. 5/5 Create pdf from all html filesThomas Ackermann, Oct 6, 2012
  16. Jeff KingOct 6, 2012
  17. Jeff KingOct 6, 2012
  18. Aw: Re: [Patch 0/5] Create single PDF for all HTML filesThomas Ackermann, Oct 7, 2012
  19. Jeff KingOct 7, 2012
  20. Michael J GruberOct 15, 2012
  21. Jeff KingOct 15, 2012
  22. Philip OakleyOct 8, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoOct 7, 2012

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