OPENRNDR guide for offline reading

OPENRNDR
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I’d like to learn OPENRNDR while on the train without internet.
Is there a way to download the guide for offline reading?

I know there are the examples, but they don’t have any supporting text in them.

I remember there used to be a Chrome extension which might have worked offline, but I can’t find that anymore. I could also save every page one by one but that would be pretty tedious.

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I realized the sources for the guide can be cloned from its repo:
https://github.com/openrndr/openrndr-guide

It’s not as good as having the readable version offline, but markdown is not too bad either.

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Hello and welcome to the forum :slight_smile:

I wrote this bash script to create a PDF version of the guide:

I’ll ask where the PDF file can be hosted and share the link.

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Here my first attempt at creating an offline version of the

OPENRNDR guide PDF 2022-06-16

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I updated the bash script above and generated a new PDF

OPENRNDR guide PDF 2024-01-24

Not book publishing quality but at least something you can read on the train :slight_smile:

Note to myself or to anyone who wants to make the PDF look better: to improve the design we can:

  • define a @media print block at the bottom of custom.scss with any CSS customizations we want while printing / creating the PDF.
  • generate the guide with the new CSS and push it to GitHub.
  • call wkhtmltopdf --print-media-type in the bash script above to make sure the print block is used while generating the PDF.
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Now the PDF guide is automatically generated on GitHub so it will be kept up to date.

It also features a PDF outline (a table of contents that takes you to the right chapter) and the internal links also take you to the right page, not to the website.

It can be downloaded from:

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