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I am in agreement with Anne on this one. Does not make sense to me to restrict folks from printing the PDF but if that is the consensus, at least provide instructions for those who want to; or point them in the right direction.



On Oct 19, 2015, 8:23 AM, at 8:23 AM, Anne Gentle <annegentle at justwriteclick.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Matt Kassawara <mkassawara at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> I don't like PDFs because people save/print them and assume the
>content
>> never changes. For the installation guide and other procedural
>> documentation in particular, this often leads to bug reports and
>support
>> requests for items that were already addressed. One could also argue
>that
>> PDFs slow our march toward EPPO, particularly the ability to easily
>bounce
>> among documents.
>>
>>
>People always ask for PDF, but I don't think we should prioritize it
>over
>other work. There are plenty of reasons people prefer PDF, all good
>ones.
>Let's document how to make your own and call it a day.
>
>Anne
>
>
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:44 AM, Pančur, Matjaž <
>> Matjaz.Pancur at fri.uni-lj.si> wrote:
>>
>>> My experience is the similar as Matt’s (e.g. I often get asked about
>PDFs
>>> of everything I present). Same goes for the slides (in the context
>of the
>>> Training guides)) - some students really like to have slides printed
>in
>>> advance and they scribe their notes on them.
>>>
>>> Matjaz
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 19 Oct 2015, at 07:33, Matthew Dorn <madorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Here at Rackspace Training,  we are really missing the PDF's!
>>>
>>> In the past, we always copied to our e-readers/tablets to review
>while
>>> traveling.
>>>
>>> I've had students ask about it as well.
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Lana Brindley <
>>> openstack at lanabrindley.com> wrote:
>>>
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>>>> On 19/10/15 15:21, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>>>> > On 10/18/2015 11:59 PM, Lana Brindley wrote:
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>>>> >> On 17/10/15 04:55, Roozbeh Shafiee wrote:
>>>> >>> Hi folks,
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> I’m trying to download the PDF version of OpenStack Liberty
>>>> documentations. It seems some of them updated and the download link
>has
>>>> removed.
>>>> >>> How can I find and download the PDFs?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> For the newer RST books, we do not publish PDF versions, as
>Sphinx is
>>>> not capable of producing them.
>>>> >
>>>> > Sphinx can produce PDFs but we need to figure out how to best do
>it -
>>>> and whether we need to enable it at all,
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> Oh, good to know. This is only the second request I've ever seen,
>so I'm
>>>> not certain there's a huge demand. Unless Anne or others have seen
>a
>>>> barrage of requests?
>>>>
>>>> L
>>>>
>>>> - --
>>>> Lana Brindley
>>>> Technical Writer
>>>> Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia
>>>> http://lanabrindley.com
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