[drupal-docs] generating Drupal Handbook pdf's manually

[Stefan Nagtegaal]

Op 20-apr-05 om 20:57 heeft bryan on the web het volgende geschreven:
> It seems to me that is might make more sense in the long run to build 
> Server-Side PDF generation into the book module using PHP.  There is a 
> costly PDF library for PHP called PDFlib 
> (http://www.pdflib.com/index.html).  But there are also some open/free 
> ways to create PDFs with PHP:
>
> FPDF
> http://www.fpdf.org/
>
> PDF4PHP
> http://www.gnuvox.com/pdf4php/
>
> Does anyone have experience with these tools.  I suspect we could use 
> them in the same way that the image.module uses imagemagick.  I know 
> this is a little off topic for the documentation discussion, but our 
> documentations needs seem to be continually drifting towards a 
> discussion of our documentation toolset.
>
> bryan
When the PDF is there, created and well we can also provide the whole 
manual as images, simply by using ImageMagick. (For people who do not 
like to download a separate PDF-viewer?)

We can do this by the following code snippet:
<?php

// Point to the handbook in PDF-format
$handbook = "downloads/drupal-handbook.pdf";

// Set the path to convert
$convert = "usr/bin/convert";

return exec("$convert $handbook drupal-handbook-pdf.jpg";

?>

For example, this would create drupal-handbook-pdf.jpg-00..01-- 
(increasing by the number for the pages in the PDF).

I'm not sure it's usable though, but I thought it was better to share 
than to say nothing... :-)



Stefan