[Qgis-community-team] How to build documentation in PDF locally?

[Eduardo Gonzalez]

Thanks Richard!

I will try my luck and report what happened.

Rregards,
Eduardo


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>
wrote:

> On 24-06-14 16:45, Eduardo Gonzalez wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > The paver script has been working great for me to build the
> > QGIS-documentation in HTML format in Windows.
> >
> > Is it possible to build it locally as PDF as well?
>
> I doubt it, using paver. Especially the non-western character set
> containing pdf's have been pretty hard to create, because of all the
> needed charactersets/latex/pdfcreation dependencies...
> I do not think you will get this running on Windows (but... try me :-)  )
>
>
> BUT :-) we also do docker builds.
>
> While it is a linux technogy, it must be possible to use the docker
> scripts on windows too. If I understand correct it will create a virtual
> machine then using VirtualBox on windows. But this is untested until now...
>
> We have a docker file to try here:
>
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Sysadmin/blob/master/docker/sphinx/Dockerfile
>
> More instructions (for linux only) here:
>
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Sysadmin/tree/master/docker/sphinx
>
> Feel free to try this, (and if successfull please write documentation
> for it).
>
> Another option would be to just create a virtualbox debian stable
> virtual machine, and do the the linux way on that box.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
>
>
>
>
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