Software Carpentry notes are up
July 8, 2005 – 5:24 pmI put an alpha version of the notes for the Software Carpentry course [1] on-line yesterday. Now, I’m looking for a way to convert them into a single PDF document, so that reviewers can download them in one shot. I’ve found some open source tools that don’t do style sheets, and some commercial tools that’ll do one page at a time, for money, but nothing so far that strikes me as being any better than “printing” with PDFCreator, one page at a time. Given that there are 31 pages, this is tedious enough that I’d like to find an alternative…
[1] The course on basic software development skills for scientists and engineers that I’m writing for the Python Software Foundation.
4 Responses to “Software Carpentry notes are up”
cat them all into a single html file and then print to a pdf. Trivial if you’re on a Mac
Otherwise, set up a fake printer that prints to a (pdf) file.
Firefox does a good job even with multiple html blocks.
By Miles Thibault on Jul 9, 2005
I second Miles: pass it to someone with a Mac and ask them to print as PDF.
By Simon Willison on Jul 9, 2005
I think (from further clarifying email with Greg), that what he has is actually 31 different HTML files, and wants each one to be on its own page, so catting them all into a single HTML file wouldn’t work, unless there was some way of specifying where to insert the breaks.
By Blake Winton on Jul 11, 2005
Your blog skin is really awesome. Is that a Wordpress skin? Where did you get it?
By Jeremy on Jul 12, 2005