Re: Re: [Patch 0/5] Create single PDF for all HTML files

On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 10:14:28AM +0200, Thomas Ackermann wrote:

There are "patched QT" and "unpatched QT" versions of wkhtmltopdf
(see http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/). I am using V0.9.9 for Windows
which is "patched QT".

That's a definite compatibility question for taking your patches into
upstream git.

There is one drawback with wkhtmltopdf: At least on my Netbook (Win7 64bit,
Pentium 1.5GHz) it is very slow. It takes more than 3 hrs to create git-doc.pdf.

If you want to have a quick look on the resulting pdf just clone 
https://github.com/tacker66/git-docpdf.git. This repo contains
a current version of user.manual.pdf and git-doc.pdf 

It does look better than the output generated by the "man -Tdvi" loop I
posted. It retains more styling from the HTML and it has a nice table of
contents. But 3 hours? Yeesh. Mine took 11 seconds.

I wonder if a more sane route is to drop HTML entirely, convert the
asciidoc to docbook (which we already do for manpages), and then create
a docbook document that is a collection of all elements, which can then
be converted to pdf, epub, or whatever. I would not be surprised if
somebody has solved this problem before (but it is not really my itch,
so I did not look very far).

-Peff