[Qgis-community-team] Fwd: [Qgis-user] documentation v 3.10 - PDF ?

[Alexandre Neto]

Something to discuss?

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De: Håvard Tveite <havard.tveite at nmbu.no>
Date: quinta, 23/04/2020, 22:20
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] documentation v 3.10 - PDF ?
To: Alexandre Neto <senhor.neto at gmail.com>, karsten <karsten at terragis.net>
Cc: QGIS User <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>


I hope that we can continue to provide the documentation also
as PDFs (one for the user manual, one for the training manual, ...).
HTML definitely has its merits, but I find a PDF very much more
convenient than a huge structure of HTML files for reading and
searching the documentation.

Could a "compromise" be to generate the PDF(s) as a separate
process?  We could then generate the PDFs less frequently
(and provide a warning about that).

Håvard

On 23.04.2020 23:09, Alexandre Neto wrote:
> Hello Karsten,
>
> The documentation team decided to drop the PDF creation, because It was
> a big overhead in the all process.
>
> The plan is to provide the HTML version in a zip package instead, but we
> were not able to tackle that yet. We think the HTML package will replace
> the PDF functionality, while providing another advantage. Having a local
> copy of the HTML, one can set QGIS to use it as an alternative to online
> documentation. That way, if you press a help button while offline, it
> will redirect to you local copy.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alexandre Neto
>
> A quinta, 23/04/2020, 19:26, karsten <karsten at terragis.net
> <mailto:karsten at terragis.net>> escreveu:
>
>     __
>     Dear all,
>     I have looked at the nice new documentation for QGIS v. 3.10 online
>     (HTML) but wanted to find the PDF versions which unfortunately I
>     could not locate so far (last ones I found are 3.4 ).
>     Can someone point me to the doc PDFs ?
>     or are there none available (unless I would install all the docs
>     source code and try to compile them myself as PDF ) ?
>     Thanks + Cheers
>     Karsten
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