Availability of Printable version of documentation

[Richard Mancusi]

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:29, Richard Mancusi <vrman49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:10, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> If someone could supply the proper Makefile patches to the gnucash-docs
>> I can set up the server to build a PDF every night.  But last I checked
>> there weren't good patches available that output "decent" PDF.  I'd have
>> to go check the archives for the hand-executed operations that were done
>> a few years ago.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>
> My $0.02 ...
> I just did "Print this document" / "Print to file".  That yields a 1.3MB ps file
> which I converted to a 4.9MB pdf (ps2pdf).  Personally I don't see much
> value since the online docs are searchable and easy to use.
>
> -rich
>

I had a couple of off-list emails explaining the virtues of the cups-pdf
printer.  Yes, I have it installed and it works well - just not in this case.
All it produced on my system was an empty pdf file.

If you really need a pdf of the docs try the pdf printer first.  Perhaps
it will work for you.  Else, follow my previous instructions.

-rich