Re: [boost] BOOST documentation in PDF/PS format

From: Daniel James (daniel_james_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-27 17:17:05

On 27/05/2008, Daniel James <daniel_james_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On 27/05/2008, John Maddock <john_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>  >
>  > First the good news: some libraries already provide PDF's of their docs, for
>  >  example the regex, math, type_traits and tr1 libraries all have links to the
>  >  PDF versions of their docs from their title pages.
>
>
> The pdf links in the math libraries are broken. If it's okay, I'll fix
>  them in trunk and release.

Patch attached. I've also changed inspect (in trunk) to notice this
type of link error.

>  On 27/05/2008, John Maddock <john_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>  >
>  >  However, if anyone would like help getting their quickbook docs converted to
>  >  PDF, I'm certainly willing to help with that as I have all the necessary
>  >  tools etc set up here.
>
>
> I'd be interested in trying. Are there linux tools available? I think
>  I remember you saying that the only decent ones were commercial.

I saw the renderx advert in the pdfs and had a go:

http://unordered.nfshost.com/pdfs/unordered.pdf

But it needs some work; there's a missing png, code escapes its boxes
and there are page breaks in all the wrong places and none of the
right places.

Daniel