Not sure if there is an option or a copy of the user guide in a print friendly format… would love to peruse the docs without laptop in hand. Old Skool I know…

You can do a CTRL+A on all files in user_guide, then right click and click print? Does it work?

Some time ago, Rick said that he writes the User Guide in native html, rather than generating it from something like Docbook. That means to me that turning it into a decent PDF is far from trivial.

Someone turned an early version into a PDF, but did not update it (probably because of the work of making the first one), so it would be pretty useless now, after all the changes.

Also, CI is in its first year, so to keep a printed copy current would require printing it every couple of months. The online UG is pretty good ... do you really do *that* much coding in the bathroom?

linuxbz - 19 September 2006 07:43 AM

... do you really do *that* much coding in the bathroom?

Some of my code belongs in the toilet….

Martin Hall - 19 September 2006 09:02 AM

linuxbz - 19 September 2006 07:43 AM

... do you really do *that* much coding in the bathroom?

Some of my code belongs in the toilet….

Yea, mine too.  I’m the most productive when I have

Alrighty, then. Just wanted to see if there was any existing “printer friendly” docs existing before I did screen prints or a PDF web site rip.

printmkr - 19 September 2006 04:33 PM

Alrighty, then. Just wanted to see if there was any existing “printer friendly” docs existing before I did screen prints or a PDF web site rip.

Acrobat can import an HTML files or multiple files, then the files can be bookmarked and thumbnailed. Then you can view and print the files from Acrobat Reader. Is that what you want?

yes, I did that, but the drop down menu kept screwing Acrobat up, and kept giving me a 300+ page document (twice as long as the CakePHP documentation!) I think I will just stick with the HTML documentation for now…

printmkr - 20 September 2006 09:02 PM

yes, I did that, but the drop down menu kept screwing Acrobat up, and kept giving me a 300+ page document (twice as long as the CakePHP documentation!) I think I will just stick with the HTML documentation for now…

I will convert it over this weekend and will pass on files. If the javascript is commented out or removed and the bookmarks are entered manually, it should be possible to create a files via Adobe FrameMaker which can be single sourced to multiple formats such as PDF, CHM, MIF, DOC, RTF, SGML., XML and possibly other file formats. I’m going to use the 1.4.1 documentation, since this is the latest revision and does contain some changes.

Thanks for the effort, but don’t go to too much trouble on my account, unless you are looking for hard copy yourself. I spent an hour or two playing with acrobat to try to get decent documentation for printing yesterday… and it didn’t work well. But even if it DID work,  it would have been outdated today with 1.4.1! So it may be a losing game with a moving target!

I’ve done the opposite.  I built a CHM from the source HTML files, so the user guide is somewhat searchable, and the TOC can be turned on/off independently of the page.

There are a few modifications to the original user guide HTML:
<ul>
<li>The HTML is modified to remove the scripts
<li>The drop-down TOC has been removed.
<li>The topic of each document is reflected in its title (instead of being titled “Code Igniter User Guide” on every page.)
<li>Removed the search box
</ul>

The CHM is here:
http://champs.name/ci/ci_user_guide.chm

And the HTML Help Workshop project files are here:
http://champs.name/ci/ci_user_guide.src.zip

Good job champs! 

Yes, great job, thanks for the effort! And for us Mac folks there is a free CHM reader CHMOX at CHMOX CHM reader for OSX

Maybe Rick would like to link the chm file in the site.

Hello,

I just downloaded the user guide, cleaned up the html and created a pdf version of the v 1.4.1 user guide.
It’s not perfect, but it let’s you read the manual where ever you want.

you can download it at :

http://www.g-design.net/ci_manual.pdf

thanks for a great framework.

gunther

I’ve got a set of CHMs for 1.4 and 1.5 here: http://champs.name/ci/  Not all at once, now

Like before, I’ve got a zip file in there with an UltraEdit macro to do most of the HTML changes, plus the HTML Help Workshop files.  Please don’t hesitate to put work into the Index tab if you feel like it.