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Date:      Fri, 2 Dec 2016 22:19:31 +0000
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "John W. Kitz" <John.Kitz@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is there a possibility to obtain the most recent FreeBSD documentation in .pdf format?
Message-ID:  <20161202221931.GF25895@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20161202220855.GS8460@kduck.kaduk.org>
References:  <000001d24ce6$ee26b970$ca742c50$@Kitz@xs4all.nl> <20161202220855.GS8460@kduck.kaduk.org>

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On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 04:08:55PM -0600, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 10:56:19PM +0100, John W. Kitz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > =20
> >=20
> > I was wondering; most books on FreeBSD that are on the market at any one
> > time are typically based on a release that is quite a bit older than the
> > most recent GA'd one. Obviously there is the HTML version online, but I
> > prefer to use a book or a printed manual.
> >=20
> > =20
> >=20
> > Is there a possibility to obtain the most recent FreeBSD documentation =
in
> > .pdf format, either by means of downloading it or by e.g. using some to=
ol to
> > generate it from the HTML version?
>=20
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/ has instructions for bui=
lding
> the FreeBSD documentation; the extremely abridged version is roughly:
>=20
> pkg install docproj
> svn co https://svn.freebsd.org/doc/head doc
> cd doc
> make FORMATS=3Dpdf ENGLISH_ONLY=3Dyes
>=20

They're also available on the FTP mirrors:

 http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/

Glen


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