[Bug web/23693] New: Manuals in the Portable Document Format (PDF)

[Bug web/23693] New: Manuals in the Portable Document Format (PDF)

[berndtrog at yahoo dot com]

Hello!

It would be good to provide PDF manuals for released versions of the gcc.

I've tried "ps2pdf", but it doesn't generate the pdf-booksmarks.

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           Summary: Manuals in the  Portable Document Format (PDF)
           Product: gcc
           Version: unknown
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: web
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: berndtrog at yahoo dot com
                CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23693

[Bug other/23693] Manuals in the Portable Document Format (PDF)

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-09-02 12:04 -------
I don't understand why you would want this ps is more portable than PDF is.

Anyways ps2pdf would be used to generate them anyways so it does not matter as you generated them 
already.

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[Bug other/23693] Manuals in the Portable Document Format (PDF)

[berndtrog at yahoo dot com]

------- Additional Comments From berndtrog at yahoo dot com  2005-09-02 12:16 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't understand why you would want this ps is more portable than PDF is.

Am I the only one who finds pdf manuals (w/ bookmarks) much more convenient than
ps or html?


> Anyways ps2pdf would be used to generate them anyways so it does not matter as 
> you generated them already.

Isn't there a direct way to generate nice looking pfds from the source format?


Thanks,
Bernd

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[Bug other/23693] Manuals in the Portable Document Format (PDF)

[gdr at integrable-solutions dot net]

------- Additional Comments From gdr at integrable-solutions dot net  2005-09-02 12:32 -------
Subject: Re:  Manuals in the  Portable Document Format (PDF)

"berndtrog at yahoo dot com" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

| (In reply to comment #1)
| > I don't understand why you would want this ps is more portable than PDF is.
| 
| Am I the only one who finds pdf manuals (w/ bookmarks) much more
| convenient than ps or html?

No.

-- Gaby


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[Bug other/23693] Manuals in the Portable Document Format (PDF)

[joseph at codesourcery dot com]

------- Additional Comments From joseph at codesourcery dot com  2005-09-02 12:41 -------
Subject: Re:  Manuals in the  Portable Document Format (PDF)

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:

> Anyways ps2pdf would be used to generate them anyways so it does not 
> matter as you generated them already.

texi2pdf (= texi2dvi --pdf) uses pdftex to generate PDF directly and 
texinfo.tex has conditional code to generate PDF files with internal links 
etc. when generating PDF.



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[Bug other/23693] Manuals in the Portable Document Format (PDF)

[berndtrog at yahoo dot com]

------- Additional Comments From berndtrog at yahoo dot com  2005-09-02 14:29 -------
(In reply to comment #4)

> texi2pdf (= texi2dvi --pdf) uses pdftex to generate PDF directly and 
> texinfo.tex has conditional code to generate PDF files with internal links 
> etc. when generating PDF.

Thanks for the hint, Joseph.

I tested this with pdfeTeXk, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5),
and I now have a nice looking gcc.pdf w/ bookmarks (after adding the appropriate
include paths (using "-I") to the texi2pdf command).


Can the PDF files somehow be generated automaticaly?


Thanks,
Bernd

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23693

[Bug other/23693] Manuals in the Portable Document Format (PDF)

[cvs-commit at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From cvs-commit at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-09-30 22:06 -------
Subject: Bug 23693

CVSROOT:	/cvs/gcc
Module name:	gcc
Changes by:	jsm28@gcc.gnu.org	2005-09-30 22:06:07

Modified files:
	maintainer-scripts: ChangeLog update_web_docs 

Log message:
	PR other/23693
	* update_web_docs: Add PDF support.  Correct check of DEV-PHASE.

Patches:
http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog.diff?cvsroot=gcc&r1=1.124&r2=1.125
http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gcc/maintainer-scripts/update_web_docs.diff?cvsroot=gcc&r1=1.25&r2=1.26



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[Bug other/23693] Manuals in the Portable Document Format (PDF)

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-09-30 22:53 -------
Fixed.

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