With the docs now in markdown format, it should also be easy to convert
markdown to PDF.  Here is a gradle plugin that can do that for example...

https://github.com/sleroy/gradle-doc-plugin

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:49 PM, John Blum <jb...@pivotal.io> wrote:

> Perhaps longer term we should consider moving the docs to Asciidoc  It is
> relatively simple matter to convert Asciidoc to PDF.
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Jared Stewart <jstew...@pivotal.io>
> wrote:
>
> > Sadly just looked at the license for wkhtmltopdf and it uses GPL 3.0.  I
> > believe that would be an issue as discussed here <
> https://www.apache.org/
> > licenses/GPL-compatibility.html>.
> >
> > > On Oct 18, 2016, at 1:38 PM, Jared Stewart <jstew...@pivotal.io>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > In the past I have used wkhtmltopdf to build programmatically PDFs from
> > HTML documents.  We could try using this to generate a PDF version of the
> > docs in the interim until we can generate a PDF directly from book
> binder.
> > >
> > >> On Oct 18, 2016, at 1:09 PM, Michael Stolz <mst...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Its really important to ship pdf docs because its very difficult to
> > search
> > >> otherwise.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Mike Stolz
> > >> Principal Engineer, GemFire Product Manager
> > >> Mobile: 631-835-4771
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Joey McAllister <
> > jmcallis...@pivotal.io>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> @Dan: I didn't realize there was a docs link in the top-level README.
> > We
> > >>> can change that for the next release, and I can look into redirecting
> > >>> geode.docs.pivotal.io to geode.incubator.apache.org/docs/ in the
> > meantime,
> > >>> once the docs are posted there..
> > >>>
> > >>> @William: We don't currently have a PDF for these docs. I'm
> researching
> > >>> options.
> > >>>
> > >>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 6:53 PM William Markito <wmark...@pivotal.io
> >
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> IHMO, it would be really nice to ship a PDF version of the docs.
> > >>>
> > >>> About the examples, if we could package and ship sources only for
> that
> > >>> module, that would be cool as well.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Dan Smith <dsm...@pivotal.io>
> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Along these lines, should we distributing the docs with the binary
> > >>> release?
> > >>>> Or maybe just providing a link to them? The README.md shipped with
> > >>> 1.0.RC2
> > >>>> points to http://geode.docs.pivotal.io/ .
> > >>>>
> > >>>> What about geode-examples? Should that be part of the binary
> release?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> -Dan
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Joey McAllister <
> > jmcallis...@pivotal.io
> > >>>>
> > >>>> wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> @Roman: Nothing that I can think of, apart from giving the
> community
> > >>> time
> > >>>>> to offer feedback here (which, it looks like, is all positive).
> > William
> > >>>>> Markito and I were able to build and test a local version of the
> > >>> website
> > >>>>> with the docs included.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Based on the +1s here, I'd like to go ahead and push the current
> docs
> > >>> to
> > >>>>> the website. I'll also document the process in a README.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:49 PM Roman Shaposhnik <
> > >>> ro...@shaposhnik.org>
> > >>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Anthony Baker <
> aba...@pivotal.io>
> > >>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>>> Since the geode docs have now been merged to the develop branch,
> > >>>> let’s
> > >>>>>> start
> > >>>>>>> hosting them on http://geode.apache.org.  Thoughts?
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Huge +1! Anything stopping you from pushing the first update and
> > >>> start
> > >>>>>> maintaining
> > >>>>>> it a'la Hadoop:
> > >>>>>>   https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/
> > >>>>>> ?
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Thanks,
> > >>>>>> Roman.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>>
> > >>> ~/William
> > >>>
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> -John
> 503-504-8657
> john.blum10101 (skype)
>



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