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  Re: Docs in PDF? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-07-19 17:34 -0400

#29129 — Re: Docs in PDF?

On 7/19/2014 4:50 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    I would like to have the Oracle Java tutorials and the
>    Java SE docs as one single large PDF file or a small
>    set of large PDF files.
>
>    It seems as if Oracle has not prepared such documents
>    (as they did this for the JLS)?
>
>    And it also seems that there is not a simple free tool
>    that can convert a large directory structure of HTML
>    files into a single PDF?
>
>    Oracle already is so kind as to offer a ZIP file with
>    the Java SE docs. Now, if I could only convert that
>    to a single large PDF (or a small set of large PDFs)!

     (Untested, not even really investigated): Can you configure
the javadoc utility to generate the SE docs from the Java source?
I believe it can handle various kinds of externally-supplied style
sheets and stuff; maybe there's a way to get it to spit everything
out on one giant HTML page. You could then use LibreOffice (for
example) to generate PDF.

     (Also untested, only marginally less speculative): You could
write a sort of "Web spider" that would traverse a JavaDoc tree
or the Tutorial, digesting HTML pages and spitting out one giant
Open Document (.odt) file.  Tools like ODFDOM should be helpful;
there's also jOpenDocument (although I find its documentation a
bit sparse), or using a UNO bridge to an active LibreOffice/
OpenOffice.org instance.

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esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid

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