Received: from localhost (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B2C476249 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 10:01:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from dellserver.venuedirectory.com (unknown [217.33.119.221]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DDBB4760E3 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 10:01:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from heather.retep.org.uk (192.168.0.13 [192.168.0.13]) by dellserver.venuedirectory.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.1960.3) id YDM1KZS2; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:01:47 -0000 Received: from heather.retep.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heather.retep.org.uk (8.12.2/8.12.2/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id gB2F1Oqa003290; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:01:25 GMT Received: from localhost (peter@localhost) by heather.retep.org.uk (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id gB2F1KGH003287; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:01:22 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: heather.retep.org.uk: peter owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 15:01:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Mount To: Tom Lane Cc: Vince Vielhaber , Subject: Re: PDF docs In-Reply-To: <18291.1038840747@sss.pgh.pa.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 X-Archive-Number: 200212/4 X-Sequence-Number: 1577 On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > Vince Vielhaber 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