Comments on: “Refactoring Legacy Applications Using CakePHP” is now available!

By: Roberto Alsina

Roberto Alsina — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:28:52 +0000

Pity, all those things are possible now, at least

Page breaks:

.. raw::

PageBreak

TOC:

.. contents::

(it now has the classical book-style table of contents with page numbers)

Code blocks:

.. code-block:: php

printf(‘whatever’)

Let me know if you want to give it a shot for your next book!

By: Chris Hartjes

Chris Hartjes — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:51:09 +0000

@Roberto

Yes, this was the book I was trying to do that with. The problem I ran into was that I could not figure out how to do some of the layout stuff I felt I needed, specifically code blocks and hard page returns where I wanted them. In the end, it was easier to use Pages to do the layout and then export to PDF. Plus I couldn’t figure out how to do a table of contents either using rst2pdf. It’s a really great tool, but I couldn’t make it do what I felt I needed.

By: Roberto Alsina

Roberto Alsina — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:18:27 +0000

Just idle curiosity: is this the book you were trying to convert to PDF using rst2pdf? I ask because I am one of the authors, and would love to know if it worked for you (and if it didn’t, why not)

By: Chris Hartjes

Chris Hartjes — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:55:52 +0000

@Brendon

Ah, I understand now! I chose the path of pragmatism and whipped together the page in under an hour.

By: Brendon Kozlowski

Brendon Kozlowski — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:10:12 +0000

Chris: Considering your rebuttle question from my question, I’m thinking I misunderstood previous blog posts of yours discussing the subject. I thought you were building a site for the book in CakePHP – as in building a site that would host the book itself; a landing page/site if you will.

My apologies, now I understand!

By: Chris Hartjes

Chris Hartjes — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:55:29 +0000

@Brendon

Are you asking if the site I am building in the book was finished, then the answer most certainly is yes. I just didn’t release the source code for it, that’s all.

If there’s enough demand for it, I can easily make it available for downloading via the web site for the book

By: Brendon Kozlowski

Brendon Kozlowski — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:50:13 +0000

I guess the book’s website wasn’t finished for release? Either way, I’m about the purchase, thanks for all of the work you put in to your book, Chris.

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Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:51:26 +0000

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By: Chris Hartjes

Chris Hartjes — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:05:29 +0000

@yicz

Unfortunately you are limited to either PayPal for the PDF or Lulu for the paper version. If neither service works in China I’m afraid there’s nothing I can do.

If there is an alternative to PayPal for Chinese customers I’m open to making it available that way.

By: ylcz

ylcz — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:58:48 +0000

Good job! When can i get it in China?