Re: [boost] [ANN] New documentation style sheet

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-08 09:33:47

"John Maddock" <john_at_[hidden]> writes:

>>> One last thing.  My main requirement to any document is the ability
>>> to conveniantly print it out.  This is totaly missing from HTML
>>> versions.  In fact, I would much prefer a single HTML with anchors
>>> to what we have now.  I guess PDFs are going to compensate for this.
>>> Will they be available?
>>
>> Yes. BoostBook can generate PDFs as well.
>
> Sigh... only up to a point, I believe that images (png's etc) are not 
> supported in PDF output.  That'll make most of the Math lib docs unreadable 
> in PDF format.
>
> Sincerely hoping someone proves me wrong....

Have you checked whether 0.91 beta supports them?

  http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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