Build PDF documentation along with HTML (Trac #510)

[butlerpd]

Sphinx make file needs to be edited to build PDFs as well as HTML for offline use. Note that expectation is to have tutorials delivered in the same way (PDF and HTML bundled with !SasView and on the web page)

Migrated from http://trac.sasview.org/ticket/510

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    "status": "closed",
    "changetime": "2017-10-27T13:36:11",
    "_ts": "2017-10-27 13:36:11.354120+00:00",
    "description": "Sphinx make file needs to be edited to build PDFs as well as HTML for offline use. Note that expectation is to have tutorials delivered in the same way (PDF and HTML bundled with !SasView and on the web page)",
    "reporter": "butler",
    "cc": "",
    "resolution": "fixed",
    "workpackage": "SasView Documentation",
    "time": "2016-03-15T16:52:49",
    "component": "SasView",
    "summary": "Build PDF documentation along with HTML",
    "priority": "major",
    "keywords": "",
    "milestone": "SasView 4.2.0",
    "owner": "wojciech",
    "type": "enhancement"
}

[butlerpd]

Trac update at 2016/03/20 23:05:13:

• butler changed milestone from "SasView 4.0.0" to "SasView Next Release +1"
• butler changed priority from "critical" to "major"

[butlerpd]

Trac update at 2016/03/20 23:21:47: butler changed milestone from "SasView Next Release +1" to "SasView 4.0.0"

[smk78]

Trac update at 2016/03/20 23:28:04: smk78 commented:

Make file is already set to make pdf. But pdf is generated from a latex make first and this requires the build machine to have a TeK installation. TeK is not currently on DMSC build servers.

[butlerpd]

Trac update at 2016/06/19 16:40:00:

• butler commented:

Yet another thing that should be relatively straightforward to finish but not vital for 4.0 and give the resources and amount of work left for 4.0 sadly need to move to +1

• butler changed milestone from "SasView 4.0.0" to "SasView Next Release +1"

[ajj]

Trac update at 2016/10/07 19:45:59:

• ajj changed owner from "" to "ajj"
• ajj changed status from "new" to "assigned"

[smk78]

Trac update at 2017/04/05 09:25:01:

• smk78 changed milestone from "SasView Next Release +1" to "SasView 4.2.0"
• smk78 changed owner from "ajj" to "wojciech"

[wpotrzebowski]

Trac update at 2017/04/05 15:31:47: wojciech commented:

This turned out to be complicated there are two ways to approach this.

1. Install rst2pdf and modify build_sphinx.py to create pdf
2. Modify build_sphinx.py to create latex file and then use pdflatex to generate pdf.

The issue with 1) is that it doesn't really work 2) requires all the images converted to png (both gif and bmp), which are quite many