Is there a possibility to obtain the most recent FreeBSD documentation in .pdf format?

[Glen Barber]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 04:08:55PM -0600, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 10:56:19PM +0100, John W. Kitz wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I was wondering; most books on FreeBSD that are on the market at any one
> > time are typically based on a release that is quite a bit older than the
> > most recent GA'd one. Obviously there is the HTML version online, but I
> > prefer to use a book or a printed manual.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Is there a possibility to obtain the most recent FreeBSD documentation in
> > .pdf format, either by means of downloading it or by e.g. using some tool to
> > generate it from the HTML version?
> 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/fdp-primer/ has instructions for building
> the FreeBSD documentation; the extremely abridged version is roughly:
> 
> pkg install docproj
> svn co https://svn.freebsd.org/doc/head doc
> cd doc
> make FORMATS=pdf ENGLISH_ONLY=yes
> 

They're also available on the FTP mirrors:

 http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/

Glen

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