Need PDF output

[drewhk]

Many of our users/readers perfer to have a PDF version. We should have some options for this, maybe as simple as emitting LaTeX from the DOM.

[eed3si9n]

For Pamflet I've implemented PDF generation by creating a combined markdown, and then passing it to Pandoc. Looks like this - http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13/docs/sbt-reference.pdf

[ktoso]

That would be good enough I think, looks pretty good.
In our community people keep praising the availability of PDF because they
often read the docs like a book.

[eed3si9n]

Yea. I think being able to download and carry docs around is a benefit of static generation in general. There are probably a few tweaks we want to allow in Paradox if we want to make combined markdown a thing, like not insisting on having h1 at the top of the page.

[raboof]

When groups are used ideally we'd be able to generate a PDF for each group

[dwijnand]

When groups are used ideally we'd be able to generate a PDF for each group

groups?

[raboof]

http://developer.lightbend.com/docs/paradox/latest/features/groups.html :)

[xmeng1]

+1, have tried a lot of methods to convert Akka doc HTML to PDF, but none of them perfect.

[raboof]

There are a number of ways to approach this, each with their pro's and cons. One is to take the generated HTML and post-process it. If anyone wants to give that a try, https://github.com/raboof/paradox-singlepage could be a starting point (though very incomplete and currently written towards processing the Akka docs)