How to create a PDF version of the Ardour manual

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#1

Pops up every now and then. (maybe this should be in the FAQ?)

Description is here GitHub - Ardour/manual: Mirror of the Ardour manual · GitHub
It’s easy. Even I could do it (this is for Linux only!):

  1. You will need git, python3, and cherrypy and weasyprint python modules installed.
    Use your package manager to do that, if not already available.

    In a terminal on the command line do the following

  2. Download the manual source from github.com

     % git clone https://github.com/Ardour/manual ardour-manual

  3. Create the PDF:

       % cd ardour-manual
       % ./build.py -p

The manual is here:
./website/manual.pdf

Corrections kindly by:
@TonyBKDE
@Axel99092

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#2

Thanks for this! Very nice and by the way extremely cool. Learned something.

You have single quotes around the git command in your post - found them a bit confusing as I saw the one at the end before spotting the one at the beginning. Also for me it was ./build**.py** -p

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#3

thanks for pointing this out. FIxed

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#4

thank you Peter,

This is a nice tip, and very usefull to be able to consult the Ardour.pdf manual when offline.
Kind Regards, Luc.

#5

should be

  % ./build.py -p
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#6

Exactly that’s what I have in my command history :slight_smile:
Fixed

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