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On 3/3/21 9:30 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2021-03-03 15:05:10 -0500 (-0500), Peter Matulis wrote:
> [...]
>> How do I get a download PDF link like what is available in the
>> published pages of the Nova project? Where is that documented?

On each project's documentation page, there is a "Download PDF" button, 
at the top, near to the "Report a Bug".

>>
>> In short, yes, I am interested in having downloadable PDFs for the
>> projects that I maintain:
>>
>> https://opendev.org/openstack/charm-guide
>> https://opendev.org/openstack/charm-deployment-guide
> 
> The official goal document is still available here:
> 
> https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/selected/train/pdf-doc-generation.html
> 
> Some technical detail can also be found in the earlier docs spec:
> 
> https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/docs-specs/specs/ocata/build-pdf-from-rst-guides.html
> 
> A bit of spelunking in Git history turns up, for example, this
> change implementing PDF generation for openstack/ironic (you can
> find plenty more if you hunt):
> 
> https://review.opendev.org/680585
> 
> I expect you would just do something similar to that. If memory
> serves (it's been a couple years now), each project hit slightly
> different challenges as no two bodies of documentation are every
> quite the same. You'll likely have to dig deep occasionally in
> Sphinx and LaTeX examples to iron things out.
> 
> One thing which would have been nice as an output of that cycle goal
> was if the PTI section for documentation was updated with related
> technical guidance on building PDFs, but it's rather lacking in that
> department still:
> 
> https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/project-testing-interface.html#documentation
> 
> If you can come up with a succinct summary for what's needed, I
> expect adding it there would be really useful to others too.
> 


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Best regards,
Bogdan Dobrelya,
Irc #bogdando