Re: [Boost-docs] HTML to PDF translations?

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] HTML to PDF translations?
From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-16 06:41:36

"Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:a61d44020902110633n51304daayd88c7b321a6fc926_at_mail.gmail.com...
> John's PDF translations have generated a lot of positive comments. Can
> we do something similar with HTML based documentation?
>
> I've been using Bullzip (http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php)
> to generate PDF from HTML. It works fine as a pseudo-printer, but what
> we need is an html to pdf converter.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with a html to pdf converter that
> would be suitable for automatically generating pdf's for libraries
> that don't want to use quickbook?

For the record, if you are still interested in investigating this route, I 
used open source version of HTMLDOC (http://www.htmldoc.org/index.php, IIRC, 
built from sources on Mac OS X) to produce boost.pdf for 1.32 release. It 
took a bit of tweaking, but the end result was on par or even better-looking 
than what our standard FOP-based PDF chain produced (when it wasn't broken) 
back then.

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering