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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 For the newer RST books, we do not publish PDF versions, as Sphinx is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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