Drupal Handbooks

Hi All,

Recently when my developers wanted a PDF version of Drupal Handbooks, i started searching internet for possible PDFs that would have full Drupal documentation in it.

I came across http://www.puregin.org/Drupal-handbooks. This website automatically generates PDFs from Drupal Handbooks from Drupal.org website.

They are using combination of Perl, Tidy, a somewhat hacked-on version of html2ps, and ps2pdf

Website says

These are automatically generated from the collaboratively written and edited handbooks available on Drupal.org. The process has the benefit of being completely automatic, but does not allow for very fine control. There are also a number of bugs in the software which lead to some 'interesting' looking output.

Please note: problems with the input can sometimes lead to improperly formatted or incomplete PDF versions. Unfortuately, I often can't do much about these, but do let me know anyway, and I'll try to track down the issue.

This is an interim measure to provide printable documentation while we work on generating print-process-friendly output. This project is under actively development at Drupal and we hope to have some much finer output available in the next few weeks.

Please direct any questions or comments about these publications to the documentation forum on Drupal.org, or post an e-mail to the drupal-docs mailing list on Drupal.org.

For the curious, the PDF generation pipeline uses Perl, Tidy, a somewhat hacked-on version of html2ps, and ps2pdf, all glued together by bash.

Enjoy the Real Drupal Handbooks in PDF format!

Vinay