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On 06/02/17 08:54, Ian Y. Choi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Me and SeongSoo have been collaborating a lot to apply better customized styles
> to PDF documents from rst-based guide documents (spec is available at [1]).
> 
> Applying styles from documents with a basic pdflatex theme (example: [2, 3, 4]) have not been easy for us.
> However, thanks to the new sphinx version support [5], lots of latest styling options described
> in Sphinx documentation [6] are now well-applicable to openstack-manuals!
> 
> The draft PDF styling results are available at [7].
> You can check new PDF files by clicking "gate-openstack-manuals-tox-doc-publish-checkbuild"
> and "(pdf)" links for arch-design, ha-guide, image-guide, and user-guide (for example: [8]).
> 
> More detailed descriptions are available at Etherpad [9].
> 
> I would like to ask team members to review the new draft PDF styling results,
> and if you are fine, then me and SeongSoo want to migrate current python and latex styling files
> into openstackdocstheme and then polish [7] to make use of a new openstackdocstheme
> with PDF theme & styles.

LGTM. I did notice that there are no OpenStack logos on the Install Guides, though. Is this deliberate?

> 
> Also, since I am not familiar with the following issues, please also share your idea & thoughts on:
>  - In conf.py, version numbers are specified such as "0.0.1" and "0.9".
>    Will it be so important for PDFs? I think just "master" or release names such as "Newton" and "Ocata"
>    would deliver more contextual meanings to document readers.

Release names would be best, if you can do it.

>  - I suggest not to use chapter and section numbers for PDFs.
>    Current rst documents are written for the best presentation with HTMLs but current chapter and section
>    notations prevent PDFs from automatically parsing appropriate numbers. For example, [2-4] denote
>    number "1" for "Abstract", "3" for "Appendix", and so on.
>  - Could somebody recommend to select open source font(s) suitable to the PDFs?

The 'Liberation' family is often a good choice: https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/

L

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Lana Brindley
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Rackspace Cloud Builders Australia
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