From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 20:54:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/5] Create single PDF for all HTML files
Message-ID: <7vipamoveo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121006193205.GD3644@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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.