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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker66@arcor.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/5] Create single PDF for all HTML files
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 13:54:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vipamoveo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121006193205.GD3644@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 6 Oct 2012 15:32:05 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Another way of doing this would be to format the individual troff
> manpages into dvi or postscript, convert that into pdf, and then
> concatenate that. Something like:
>
>   for i in *.[157]; do
>     man -Tdvi -l "$i" >"$i.dvi"
>     dvipdfm "$i"
>   done
>   pdftk *.[157].pdf cat output full.pdf
>
> works for me, though obviously that does not handle some of the non-man
> items you included. No idea on how the output compares to yours, but
> it's something you may want to look at.

Yes, that would be far more straight-forward and less error prone
way to do this.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-07 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-06 15:51 [Patch 0/5] Create single PDF for all HTML files Thomas Ackermann
2012-10-06 15:53 ` [Patch 1/5] Fix some asciidoc layout problems Thomas Ackermann
2012-10-06 18:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-06 19:10     ` Jeff King
2012-10-07  8:01     ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2012-10-06 15:55 ` [Patch 2/5] Create html documents for all files in Documentation/technical Thomas Ackermann
2012-10-06 18:45   ` Philip Oakley
2012-10-06 15:55 ` [Patch 3/5] Create html documents for all files in Documentation/RelNotes Thomas Ackermann
2012-10-06 18:48   ` Philip Oakley
2012-10-06 19:21   ` Jeff King
2012-10-07 20:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-15 11:48       ` Michael J Gruber
2012-10-15 20:49         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-10-06 15:57 ` [Patch 4/5] Create html documents for all files in Documentation/howto Thomas Ackermann
2012-10-06 15:58 ` [Patch 5/5] Create pdf from all html files Thomas Ackermann
2012-10-06 19:11   ` Jeff King
2012-10-06 19:32 ` [Patch 0/5] Create single PDF for all HTML files Jeff King
2012-10-07 20:54   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-10-07  8:14 ` Aw: " Thomas Ackermann
2012-10-07 22:52   ` Jeff King
2012-10-15 11:55     ` Michael J Gruber
2012-10-15 17:42       ` Jeff King
2012-10-08 22:53   ` Philip Oakley

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