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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 7, 2012, 20:54 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> Another way of doing this would be to format the individual troff
> manpages into dvi or postscript, convert that into pdf, and then
> concatenate that. Something like:
>
>   for i in *.[157]; do
>     man -Tdvi -l "$i" >"$i.dvi"
>     dvipdfm "$i"
>   done
>   pdftk *.[157].pdf cat output full.pdf
>
> works for me, though obviously that does not handle some of the non-man
> items you included. No idea on how the output compares to yours, but
> it's something you may want to look at.

Yes, that would be far more straight-forward and less error prone way to do this.

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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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