RE: [PYTHON DOC-SIG] Needed Python docs in RTF format
Have you checked out all the Win95 options for this sort of thing? You may find you can adjust winhelp to a more suitable size. However, I admit to not knowing much about these options. Of course I use the maximum available font size in WinHelp, but WinHelp version is rather buggy, because some articles are not accesible from "contents" tab (they appear there as books) and accesed via "Index" WinHelp pops up window saying something about wrong window name (but after hitting OK the text appears). Another problem is that I hate WinHelp's behaviour to print each topic on separate page. I also cannot affect the font size on written output. What about grabbing the .HTML versions, and either configuring your browser of choice to use the big fonts? Thats the easiest I can come up with. Do you know about FREE (non-shareware) Web site grabber? There are some available comercially, but they are rather expensive for me. Tom Valusek _______________ DOC-SIG - SIG for the Python Documentation Project send messages to: doc-sig@python.org administrivia to: doc-sig-request@python.org _______________
What about grabbing the .HTML versions, and either configuring your browser of choice to use the big fonts? Thats the easiest I can come up with.
Do you know about FREE (non-shareware) Web site grabber? There are some available comercially, but they are rather expensive for me.
FYI, the standard Python docs are available in HTML and other formats via: http://www.python.org/ftp/python/doc/ As for grabbing web sites, I think someone (Guido?) once posted a "robot" script. Could be an idea to check the locator: http://www.python.org/locator Cheers /F _______________ DOC-SIG - SIG for the Python Documentation Project send messages to: doc-sig@python.org administrivia to: doc-sig-request@python.org _______________
FYI, the standard Python docs are available in HTML and other formats via:
http://www.python.org/ftp/python/doc/
As for grabbing web sites, I think someone (Guido?) once posted a "robot" script. Could be an idea to check the locator:
I recently posted a "webchecker" script which is not quite a web grabber. It is also on ftp.python.org in /pub/tmp (until I find a better place for it). It should be straightforward to turn this into a grabber. Much longer ago I posted a "robot" thingie for the same purpose that is better forgotten. I believe I saw a post from someone else who had turned it into a grabber, recently. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________ DOC-SIG - SIG for the Python Documentation Project send messages to: doc-sig@python.org administrivia to: doc-sig-request@python.org _______________
I recently posted a "webchecker" script which is not quite a web grabber. It is also on ftp.python.org in /pub/tmp (until I find a better place for it). It should be straightforward to turn this into a grabber.
A similar but even easier solution is (and I did it :) : Use Guido's /tools/scripts/ftpmirror.py on the appropriate directory of ftp.python.org, since the whole site is accessible through FTP. If you just want to grab HTML and use a fresh directory it works immediately. There is a minor NT/W95 related bug with binary files and the rename function. I'd just let it grab the whole ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/www.python.org/doc/
Much longer ago I posted a "robot" thingie for the same purpose that is better forgotten. I believe I saw a post from someone else who had turned it into a grabber, recently.
But ftpmirror is still alive, isn't it? Sorry, I was nearly ready with the last patches for the NT problems, firewall traversal and that stuff, but by testing it I wrote it over with the old version (yes, like a greenhorn), so it make take some time until I'll want to write it again :-/ BTW, to the makers of FTPlib: It is not fire proof. There are circumstances where it will hang, or report a wrong error. I tested it with a WinGate beta which gave incomplete messages partially. Someone should enhance the error handling. (in the hope you don't suggest me..:) - chris _______________ DOC-SIG - SIG for the Python Documentation Project send messages to: doc-sig@python.org administrivia to: doc-sig-request@python.org _______________
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