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Make Documentation Available as PDF
As an end user of the docs, rather than a contributor, Im finding the current format of the docs a bit unfriendly. Could the devs enable PDF download?:
https://help.gitbook.com/books/how-can-i-provide-a-pdf-version-of-my-book.html
I don't know about the rest of you but, when learning a new language or working through documentation like this, I'll have the documentation the full height of the screen with a terminal window floating on top at half the height of the screen. This allows me to type 'stuff' in the terminal while I scroll the documentation behind, up or down to refer to the text & examples.
With the way this Gitbook documentation is structured [ie. almost as a series of small flashcards], there's no vertical scrolling available, so I have to keep switching back & forth between the docs and my terminal to re-read things and also to keep clicking the 'next' arrows to go to the next flashcard sized bite of info.
Might sound like a minor issue, but it's really interrupting my flow as I'm working through the docs.
If there was an option to view GitBooks as a single HTML page it would be a lot less hassle but I can't find any way to do that. But, failing that, at least a downloadable PDF would do as I could then set it to display as 'Continuous Scroll'
You can compile the book and build a pdf if you want to.
i like to download a pdf to have in case of internet outage.
As the reference documentation site move to MkDocs, can this issue be revisited?
It would be very nice to have a PDF version of the documents for each new release. (Python has this)