[postgis-users] PDF version of manual?

[Tim Bowden]

The new 1.4 docs look very nice.  Well done.

Regards,
Tim Bowden

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 09:10 -0700, Kevin Neufeld wrote:
> Yeah, it looks like things got a little jumbled with the new 
> documentation shuffle.
> 
> I've reinstated the link on the documentation webpage to an older pdf I 
> found (version 1.3.2).  (http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/postgis.pdf 
> ).  In my spare time, I'll work to update the postgis autobuild process 
> to update this file on a regular basis.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin
> 
> Paragon Corporation wrote:
> > Tim,
> > Strange the pdf version used to be
> > http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/postgis.pdf but I guess things got
> > reshuffled with the new documentation effort.  Maybe Paul can put a link to
> > the current 1.3.3 somewhere.  Anyrate hopefully we'll have the pdf version
> > back in line at some point.
> > 
> > There is a lot of effort currently going on to try to improve the docs.  The
> > 1.4 is very in flux, but you can get a sense of how the new layout will be
> > by looking at the section 7 work in progress for 1.4
> > 
> > http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-svn/ch07.html
> > 
> > The plan is to have a page for each function with examples and graphics.
> > Then have accompnaying pdf version also automatically built.
> > 
> > Kevin Neufeld setup the basic structure for the new doc layout and also has
> > an automated build that updates the html online docs as changes are being
> > made.  Very cool.
> > 
> > Hope that helps,
> > Regina
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
> > [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Tim
> > Bowden
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:24 PM
> > To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> > Subject: Re: [postgis-users] PDF version of manual?
> > 
> > It appears to be no longer there, but instead we have the manual for the
> > next as yet unreleased point version of postgis: 1.3.4.  It is good to see
> > an open source project giving documentation suitable attention and keeping
> > it up to date (unlike many open source projects).  I'm surprised though that
> > the documentation is released before the code.  I suspect that's
> > unprecedented.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Tim Bowden
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 20:35 +0200, Hernán De Angelis wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Is there a PDF file of the manual for the most recent version of PostGIS?
> >> In the past there used to be on link in the page to a PDF version, but 
> >> now I cannot find it.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
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