[postgis-users] Re: PDF version of manual?

[Hernán De Angelis]

Hi all,

Thanks for your answers and for posting a more or less modern version
of the manual.

Best regards,


Hernán




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> Message: 13
> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:35:03 +0800
> From: Tim Bowden <tim.bowden at westnet.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] PDF version of manual?
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion <postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net>
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> 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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