Documentation as a PDF?

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#1 Wed, 11/12/2008 - 22:46
tbirnseth

Documentation as a PDF?

Is there a PDF of the documentation for this beast? The online stuff is hard to use when having to search for things. Once a search is done, the back button seems to loose context and there's no way to look at a result and then return to other results to look at another?

Having a PDF would allow me to search for the words/phrases I'm interested in so I can learn how this thing works.

thanks, tony<br><br>Post edited by: tbirnseth, at: 2008/11/12 22:46

Thu, 11/13/2008 - 13:19
Joe
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I'll take &quot;this beast&quot; as a compliment. Or, at least, try to. ;-)

Currently no PDF. But, great things are afoot at the moment with regard to the website. Documentation searches will soon be a lot better (and there will be some integration between the help files within Webmin/Virtualmin and the online documentation soon after that). PDF output, I'm not sure about. I think the new documentation tools we're using will allow export to PDF on demand, but I don't think the output is very nice. I'll tinker with it some to find out.

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Fri, 11/14/2008 - 15:38 (Reply to #2)
tbirnseth

Thanks Joe. The biggest problem I find is in doing a search.... If the selected article is not what I want, I have to start the search again rather than the back button taking me back to the search results.

A well organized &quot;manual&quot; that led a new user through the process (explaining the variations along the way) would be a great help to newer customers.

For instance, it took me forever to figure out that to edit a template you simply click the template name. It's not underlined as a link so it just looked like text!

tony
P.S. Beast is in reference to size, not quality. I appreciate the depth of possibilities. Unfortunately, with all those choices it can be confusing to newer users like myself.

Sat, 03/21/2009 - 12:32 (Reply to #3)
Rapunzl

Is it within the license terms for commercial users to convert the wikki to PDF or other form to post on their own sites?

Sat, 03/21/2009 - 13:11 (Reply to #4)
Joe
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<div class='quote'>Is it within the license terms for commercial users to convert the wikki to PDF or other form to post on their own sites?</div>

Good question. I think we can come up with some sort of license that allows that. Remind me when the new site launches next week (which includes dramatically better documentation; you won't want to waste any time converting or figuring out how to deal with the current docs, since things will be dramatically different on the new site).

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Sat, 03/21/2009 - 14:23 (Reply to #5)
ronald
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when you have a page with search result then dont click the url, instead drag&amp;drop it in a new tab. Now you dont have to use the back button (which is an awful way to surf on the net anyways)

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