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From: Peter Mount <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Vince Vielhaber <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PDF docs
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:01:20 +0000 (GMT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>



On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> Vince Vielhaber <[email protected]> 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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