Re: Documentation in pdf format

2010-11-26 Thread Cristian Marchi
Il 26/11/2010 12:21, Geert Janssens ha scritto: For good print results the more image detail available the better. Our on- screen process limits images to 510 pixels for comfortable viewing on small screens. For this reason, many screenshot are resized to fit this 510 pixel constraint. This me

Documentation in pdf format, Screenshots, Defaults

2010-11-26 Thread jh
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 13:34 +0100, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Friday 26 November 2010, jh wrote: > > One more issue to consider: > > according to the Gnome documentation guidelines, screenshots should be > > taken with the default options set. > > The current practice doesn't comply with that. The

Re: Documentation in pdf format, Screenshots

2010-11-26 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 26 November 2010, jh wrote: > One more issue to consider: > according to the Gnome documentation guidelines, screenshots should be > taken with the default options set. > The current practice doesn't comply with that. The toolbar style on most > pictures is 'Text below icons', default is

Documentation in pdf format, Screenshots

2010-11-26 Thread jh
One more issue to consider: according to the Gnome documentation guidelines, screenshots should be taken with the default options set. The current practice doesn't comply with that. The toolbar style on most pictures is 'Text below icons', default is 'Priority text beside icons'. Not a big deal, bu

Re: Documentation in pdf format

2010-11-26 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 25 November 2010, Cristian Marchi wrote: > I've experimented a little with the pdf image size issue and I've found > a solution. Fop is printing-oriented so it doesn't consider the image > size but the pixel-per-inch (ppi) attribute. So if the image has a ppi > of 72 (as normally is whe

Re: Documentation in pdf format

2010-11-25 Thread Cristian Marchi
I've experimented a little with the pdf image size issue and I've found a solution. Fop is printing-oriented so it doesn't consider the image size but the pixel-per-inch (ppi) attribute. So if the image has a ppi of 72 (as normally is when saving an image file) and a width of 510pixel it will b

Re: Documentation in pdf format

2010-11-24 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 24 November 2010, Cristian Marchi wrote: > I tested it right now and works well; the result is very good! > I see problems with images (some are overscaled) and with some help > tables where the last column is probably too large and is drawn in a new > page. > > Regards > Cristian >

Re: Documentation in pdf format

2010-11-24 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 24 November 2010, Cristian Marchi wrote: > I tested it right now and works well; the result is very good! > I see problems with images (some are overscaled) and with some help > tables where the last column is probably too large and is drawn in a new > page. > Yes, there are still som

Re: Documentation in pdf format

2010-11-24 Thread Cristian Marchi
I tested it right now and works well; the result is very good! I see problems with images (some are overscaled) and with some help tables where the last column is probably too large and is drawn in a new page. Regards Cristian Il 24/11/2010 13:36, Geert Janssens ha scritto: Hi, A couple of

Documentation in pdf format

2010-11-24 Thread Geert Janssens
Hi, A couple of days back I have restored the pdf generation functionality in our documentation source tree. With this you can generate a pdf file from the help manual or the concepts guide. You need xsltproc and fop installed on your system to be able to use it. xsltproc may come with libxslt

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-20 Thread Clark
Tom Browder wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 17:08, Clark wrote: I used Adobe Acrobat Pro to do a pre-press on the PDF. The images which print too big are specified to be at 75 DPI, the ones that print right are about 120~126 DPI. In all cases the numbers are not exact, and vary slightly from im

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-20 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:15, Derek Atkins wrote: > Quoting Tom Browder : > >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:40, Derek Atkins wrote: >> ... >>> >>> Tom Browder writes: >>> Derek, I'll be happy to take a look and see if I can fix at least a couple of the bad figures to see what kind of effo

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-20 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 19 June 2009, Clark wrote: > I used Adobe Acrobat Pro to do a pre-press on the PDF. The images which > print too big are specified to be at 75 DPI, the ones that print right > are about 120~126 DPI. In all cases the numbers are not exact, and vary > slightly from image to image. Given t

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-19 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 21:01, Clark wrote: .. > Forgive me if I am being redundant, but I want to be sure I am understood. > > I don't think it is in the XML code, I don't think it has anything to do > with DocBook or the XML.  I think it is in the .png, .jpg, .tif, .whatever > image file that it

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-19 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 17:08, Clark wrote: > I used Adobe Acrobat Pro to do a pre-press on the PDF.  The images which > print too big are specified to be at 75 DPI, the ones that print right are > about 120~126 DPI.  In all cases the numbers are not exact, and vary > slightly from image to image.

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-19 Thread Clark
I used Adobe Acrobat Pro to do a pre-press on the PDF. The images which print too big are specified to be at 75 DPI, the ones that print right are about 120~126 DPI. In all cases the numbers are not exact, and vary slightly from image to image. So what is happening is that the PDF specified

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-18 Thread Clark
With regard to the pictures being too big, can they be scaled? If the problem is non-familiarity with how to scale an image, I could do that, and ... Everything is available from gnucash-docs trunk. I think fooling with the raw files might be non-productive since they look fine with the other

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-18 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Tom Browder : On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:40, Derek Atkins wrote: ... Tom Browder writes: Derek, I'll be happy to take a look and see if I can fix at least a couple of the bad figures to see what kind of effort is involved.  I ... That would be most excellent!  Thank you. If "make

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-18 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:40, Derek Atkins wrote: ... > Tom Browder writes: > >> Derek, I'll be happy to take a look and see if I can fix at least a >> couple of the bad figures to see what kind of effort is involved.  I ... > That would be most excellent!  Thank you. > > If "make pdf" is all tha

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-18 Thread Clark
Tom, It got through, apparently successfully. However when I save the attachment, Firefox says that it is a 9.2MB attachement, but stops saving it about 2/3 of the way through on the "save" progress indicator, and the resulting file is only 6.8MB. When I try to open it with Acrobat 9, "Docu

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-18 Thread Derek Atkins
Tom, Tom Browder writes: > Derek, I'll be happy to take a look and see if I can fix at least a > couple of the bad figures to see what kind of effort is involved. I > don't know much docbook, but I'm sure there are various ways to > manipulate a figure without having to import or make a new ima

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-18 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 20:20, Clark wrote: > Tom, > > It got through, apparently successfully.  However when I save the > attachment, Firefox says that it is a 9.2MB attachement, but stops saving it > about 2/3 of the way through on the "save" progress indicator, and the > resulting file is only 6

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-17 Thread Clark
Yes, I would like the guide. If the help manual could be built, that also. What is the best way to get it? I have always been puzzled that projects do not routinely make their documentation available in PDF form vs. online web pages. I would think it would make sense to have it on a download

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-17 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 18:35, Clark wrote: > Yes, I would like the guide.  If the help manual could be built, that also. > > What is the best way to get it? Ray, I can send you a copy of the guide. If you saw earlier messages, note that many of the screenshot figures are too big (mainly too wide

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-17 Thread Tom Browder
Derek, I'll be happy to take a look and see if I can fix at least a couple of the bad figures to see what kind of effort is involved. I don't know much docbook, but I'm sure there are various ways to manipulate a figure without having to import or make a new image file (and it shouldn't affect the

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-17 Thread Derek Atkins
Tom Browder writes: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 15:39, Tom Browder wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 17:51, Clark wrote: > ... >> Ray, I tried to use the gnucash-docs trunk and get an fop failure >> while making the guide pdf.  I'm investigating--first trying to use >> the latest fop. > > Well, I us

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-16 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 15:39, Tom Browder wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 17:51, Clark wrote: ... > Ray, I tried to use the gnucash-docs trunk and get an fop failure > while making the guide pdf.  I'm investigating--first trying to use > the latest fop. Well, I used the trunk again and the guide

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-15 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 20:35, Clark wrote: > Tom, > > I appreciate what you are doing, and would like to have it (as it appears > would many others!).  Whenever I try to build something like that myself I You're welcome--I want it, too! > feel like I am groping in the dark, it takes a very long

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

2009-06-14 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 17:51, Clark wrote: > Tom, > > Spet 30 2008 you posted a note "Producing GnuCash Guide PDF [SOLVED]". I > would dearly love to have the current (2006) versions of both "Tutorial and > Concepts Guide" and the "GnuCash Help Manual" in PDF format. > > It sounds like you created

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Sunday 27 February 2005 8:35 am, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sunday 27 February 2005 12:50 am, Chris Lyttle wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 23:43 +, Neil Williams wrote: > The > only change I'm considering is for each imagedata: > > to > Don't I feel the mug. I don't need to change any of

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Sunday 27 February 2005 12:50 am, Chris Lyttle wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 23:43 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > Even then, it's only the revision history that is duplicated, so it might > > as well stay. > > Neil, > > There's a lot more that's different between docbook-xml and docbook-sgml >

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-26 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 23:43 +, Neil Williams wrote: > It's an added file at the moment - that's where any duplication comes in. As > you picked up later, docbook-utils is SGML rather than XML so it complains if > the first line of the SGML file is an XML declaration - which xsltproc > under

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Saturday 26 February 2005 10:00 pm, Chris Lyttle wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 20:25 +, Neil Williams wrote: > > All I'll be doing is adding a .docbook for each set (guide and help) > > because I can't convert files based on , I need (a truly > > minor change that doesn't require any furth

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-26 Thread Chris Lyttle
On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 20:25 +, Neil Williams wrote: > I've realised that using > > > is generating errors. I'd like to change each id to use hyphens instead of > underscores: > > This is fine by me, its a pretty minor change. Go ahead and add it. > All I'll be doing is adding a .doc

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Friday 25 February 2005 5:08 am, Chris Lyttle wrote: > I've not attempted to validate the xml in the docs for use to convert to > pdf, just that its valid for conversion to html which the build script > does. OK, I've got most of that done. The changes to the XML itself are quite limited - th

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-26 Thread Chris Lyttle
Neil, Thanks. If you need other updates to the website let me know Chris On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 17:57 +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Friday 25 February 2005 5:08 am, Chris Lyttle wrote: > > Neil, > > > > I've not attempted to validate the xml in the docs for use to convert to > > pdf, just that

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-26 Thread Chris Lyttle
I have updated the GnuCash doc's page below with Neils PDF's of GnuCash-Guide and GnuCash-help. I also added a link in the 'Other Documentation' section to Neil's website. http://www.gnucash.org/en/docs.phtml Directing people to this webpage should now be the default answer to the following; 1)

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Friday 25 February 2005 5:08 am, Chris Lyttle wrote: > Neil, > > I've not attempted to validate the xml in the docs for use to convert to > pdf, just that its valid for conversion to html which the build script > does. Its possible to do this, but I'd rather not add the MB of pdf to > the docs b

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-24 Thread Chris Lyttle
Neil, I've not attempted to validate the xml in the docs for use to convert to pdf, just that its valid for conversion to html which the build script does. Its possible to do this, but I'd rather not add the MB of pdf to the docs build and I haven't really had a lot of time to do more than release

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-21 Thread Michael Wahlbrink
Neil Williams schrieb: On Sunday 20 February 2005 6:53 pm, R Hannes Beinert wrote: I very much appreciate your efforts in generating these PDF docs! I was in the process of motivating myself to offer to generate them myself I'm quite amazed at the appeal of a single 110 page PDF file! It horrifies

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-20 Thread Neil Williams
On Sunday 20 February 2005 6:53 pm, R Hannes Beinert wrote: > I very much appreciate your efforts in generating these PDF docs! I was in > the process of motivating myself to offer to generate them myself I'm quite amazed at the appeal of a single 110 page PDF file! It horrifies me to produce fi

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-20 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 06:39:35PM +0100, Michael Wahlbrink wrote: > For the first time I've left it as one big file 2.9Mb > But if there's a need for, I can also provide seperated chapters... FWIW, I prefer the one big file version. -chris ___ gnu

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-20 Thread Neil Williams
On Sunday 20 February 2005 6:31 pm, Chris Lyttle wrote: > If someone makes it available to me I can put any docs in pdf on the > gnucash website. Chris, I've only just realised that the guide and help ARE in docbook, it's just that when I try docbook2pdf, I get syntax errors. I note you're using

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-20 Thread R Hannes Beinert
--- Michael Wahlbrink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Williams schrieb: > > I'll be keeping these .pdf files updated and the site will remain active > > indefinitely. If there are other requests for documentation in various > > formats, I can host those where they are available too. > > Mich

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format - how to get the cvs things to html.....

2005-02-20 Thread Neil Williams
On Sunday 20 February 2005 6:30 pm, Michael Wahlbrink wrote: > But isn't there a way to go directly to pdf from that mysterious > doc-book things?? There must be some advantage of these. Yes there is, that's what I use for the GnuCash Design documentation. I also use docbook for all the qof_

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format - how to get the cvs things to html.....

2005-02-20 Thread Michael Wahlbrink
Michael Wahlbrink schrieb: [...] cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvs/cvsroot login The password is "guest" cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/cvs/cvsroot checkout gnucash-docs that worked under cygwin... I'm on the way to setup cygwin with cvs etc to get this job done even withou

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-20 Thread Chris Lyttle
If someone makes it available to me I can put any docs in pdf on the gnucash website. There is already a place holder in the docs part of the site (http://www.gnucash.org/en/docs.phtml) so I'd just need to add the link. Chris On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 15:13 +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sunday 20

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-20 Thread Michael Wahlbrink
Hi all, Neil Williams schrieb: On Sunday 20 February 2005 2:31 pm, Michael Wahlbrink wrote: On Saturday 19 February 2005 8:08 pm, Michael Wahlbrink wrote: I can do that, but the images linked from the document http://code.neil.williamsleesmill.me.uk/gnucash-guide.html are not there (thats the reaso

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-20 Thread Neil Williams
On Sunday 20 February 2005 2:31 pm, Michael Wahlbrink wrote: > >>>On Saturday 19 February 2005 8:08 pm, Michael Wahlbrink wrote: > I can do that, but the images linked from the document > http://code.neil.williamsleesmill.me.uk/gnucash-guide.html > are not there (thats the reason why they are not i

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-20 Thread Michael Wahlbrink
Neil Williams schrieb: On Saturday 19 February 2005 10:37 pm, you wrote: Neil Williams schrieb: On Saturday 19 February 2005 8:08 pm, Michael Wahlbrink wrote: If anyone is able to convert the HTML into a more usable PDF, send it to me and I'll update those links. I've converted them via Ooo to pdf

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-20 Thread Neil Williams
On Saturday 19 February 2005 10:37 pm, you wrote: > Neil Williams schrieb: > > On Saturday 19 February 2005 8:08 pm, Michael Wahlbrink wrote: > >>>If anyone is able to convert the HTML into a more usable PDF, send it to > >>>me and I'll update those links. > >> > >>I've converted them via Ooo to pd

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-19 Thread Michael Wahlbrink
Neil Williams schrieb: On Saturday 19 February 2005 3:47 pm, Branislav Djokic wrote: Hi Neil, Hi, I am interested in finding the GnuCash manual(s) in pdf format, which makes documents much more convenient for printing. I've got two files in HTML that can be printed to PDF but when I try it, I get

Re: GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Saturday 19 February 2005 3:47 pm, Branislav Djokic wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested in finding the GnuCash manual(s) in > pdf format, which makes documents much more convenient > for printing. I've got two files in HTML that can be printed to PDF but when I try it, I get a two column layout t

GnuCash Documentation in pdf Format

2005-02-19 Thread Branislav Djokic
Hi, I am interested in finding the GnuCash manual(s) in pdf format, which makes documents much more convenient for printing. Under the GnuCash Documentation Project at the website http://www.gnucash.org/en/docs.phtml in the box with the title "GnuCash v1.8 (current stable release)" both the "Help