I can get to and see the online version of the manual, but is there or can there be a PDF of the same thing available?
thanks!
nk
Hi,
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:10 -0600, net kat wrote:
I can get to and see the online version of the manual, but is there or can there be a PDF of the same thing available?
I don't plan on providing pdf files at the moment for two reasons. One, I don't have a good method for producing them. The current free DocBook to pdf tools seem to be broken (especially in regards to figures). And two, I don't know how providing pdf files would affect looking for a publisher.
Tav
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 12:45 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 11/24/05, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...206...> wrote:
The current free DocBook to pdf tools seem to be broken (especially in regards to figures).
I'd like to know details
Alexandre
From memory:
Using fop-0.20.5: figures can not be scaled, complex SVG figures don't work (0.20.5 uses an old version of Batik), footnote numbering broken (problem with libxslt 10115), last line on page missing sometimes.
I've just tried fop-0.90alpha1 but get a "NullPointerException".
Tav
On 24-Nov-05, at 3:56 AM, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
[snip] ... And two, I don't know how providing pdf files would affect looking for a publisher.
If you are considering publishing the book, this site may be of interest to you: http://www.lulu.com/
I came across it recently and think it's pretty cool - on-demand publishing. A book is only made _after_ it has been bought, so basically there's no risk of making too many copies. Plus you get to choose how much you want to make off of each sale. For a niche market like Inkscape users I don't think it's a bad idea.
Anyway I would certainly buy a copy no matter how you publish it - I much prefer print vs. html/pdf documentation.
AJ
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