NAME Pod::HtmlPsPdf - documentation projects builder in HTML, PS and PDF formats SYNOPSIS pod2hpp [options] configuration_file_location Options: -h this help -v verbose -i podify pseudo-pod items (s/^* /=item */) -s create the splitted html version -t create tar.gz -p generate PS file -d generate PDF file -f force a complete rebuild -a print available hypertext anchors -l do hypertext links validation -m executed from Makefile (forces rebuild, no PS/PDF file, no tgz archive!) DESCRIPTION This code knows to do following with a collection of your POD files. 1 Generate HTMLs 2 Generate a split version HTML, creating html file for each pod section, and having everything interlinked of course. This version is used best for the search. 3 Generate a single book-like version in PostScript format 4 Generate a single book-like version in PDF format 5 Complete the POD on the fly from the files in POD format. This is used to ease the generating of the presentations slides, so one can use `*' instead of a long =over/=item/.../=item/=back strings. The rest is done as before. Take a look at the special version of the html2ps format to generate nice slides in *conf/html2ps- slides.conf*. You can customise the look and feel of the HTML files, PS and therefore the PDF by tweaking the template files in *./tmpl* directory. You can change look and feel of the PS (PDF) versions by modifying *./conf/html2ps.conf*. Be careful that if your documentation that you want to put in one PS or PDF file is very big and you tell html2ps to put the TOC at the beginning you will need lots of memory because it won't write a single byte to the disk before it gets all the HTML markup converted to PS. To generate HTML this code use a slightly modified version of the `Pod::Html' code and than does a lot of massage on the resulting HTML. I've tried to keep the pod2html code modified as little as possible, so when a new versions of the original `Pod::Html' module will be released I'll be able to merge the changes with my version. EXTENDED POD SYNTAX I've extended the POD syntax to accomodate my own needs. Note that this can be always converted back to the standard POD. To see the extended syntax, refer to the *docs/extended_pod.pod* in the package distribution. CONFIGURATION All you have to prepare is a single config file that you then pass as an argument to `pod2hpp': pod2hpp [options] /full/path/to/config/file Use the file *project.config* supplied in the directory *sample*. Modify it to be suit your documentation project layout. Note that *sample/bin/build* script automatically locates your project's directory, so you can move your project around filesystem without changing anything. *sample/README.sample* explains the layout of the directories. The easiest way to learn to use this package is to look at the `Apache::mod_perl_guide' package available at CPAN. I've developed the package `Pod::HtmlPsPdf' especially for `Apache::mod_perl_guide'. PREREQUISITES All these are not required if all you want is to generate only the html version. * ps2pdf Needed to generate the PDF version * Storable Perl module available from CPAN (http://cpan.org/) Allows source modification control, so if you modify only one file you will not have to rebuild everything to get the updated HTML/PS/PDF files. SUPPORT Notice that this tool relies on two tools (ps2pdf and html2ps) which I don't support. So if you have any problem first make sure that it's not a problem of these tools. Note that while `html2ps' is included in this distribution, it's written in the old style Perl, so if you have patches send them along, but I won't try to fix/modify this code otherwise. I didn't write this utility. This package works for me on Linux RedHat and Mandrake systems. I release it only to share. Unfortunately I don't have time to help with each available platform. If you have a problem, please don't contact me. I'm not going to solve it. If you solve the problem, I'll gladly accept the patch for others to benefit. Remember that this is a free software. BUGS Huh? Probably many... AUTHOR Stas Bekman SEE ALSO perl(1), Pod::HTML(3), html2ps(1), ps2pod(1), Storable(3) COPYRIGHT This program is distributed under the Artistic License, like the Perl itself.