Where can I get the latest version of Ubuntu Server Guide(PDF)?

[Matthew East]

Hi,

(amending quoting and back on list)

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Dougie Richardson
<dougierichardson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
On 2009/4/7 Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Dougie Richardson
>>> <dougierichardson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>> Thanks Matthew,
>>>>
>>>> this gets requested quite regularly - should we think about more PDF
>>>> integration for Karmic?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is it that certain links don't work when converted to PDF?  If so,
>>> what kinds of links break?
>>
>> The issue is not really the tools - fop is relatively stable now and
>> the xsl required isn't particularly complicated. It's
>>
>> Our documentation is written to be part of a coherent system of
>> documentation. As a result it contains a lot of links pointing to
>> other documents and individual application manuals. These just won't
>> work with PDF, because there is no method of linking one PDF to
>> another.
>>
>> The Server Guide is ideal for PDF conversion, because it is a
>> standalone document. But our other documents are not, and I can't
>> think of any way to resolve that issue at the moment. It's simply the
>> difference between writing standalone "books" or "articles", and
>> writing a help system. The two types of documentation also require
>> different styles, as well as different structures.
>>
>> The only solution is to develop two types of documentation, one for
>> the system help, and another "book" about Ubuntu on the desktop. I'm
>> fairly confident that maintaining two types of documentation alongside
>> each other is beyond our scope and resources as a team.
>
> That's true but doesn't preclude the possibility of a PDF for each article.

Well, I think it does and have given reasons. Can you explain how we'd
get around those issues?

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Matthew East
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