Provide means of generating PDFs of documentation pages

[yr-wang-hit]

irods documentation is very useful in daily operations and maintenance of irods clusters.
If there is some way to get offline pdf version for convenience of internal network use.

Thanks.

[alanking]

We will not be providing a PDF of the documentation, but we could provide a way to generate the PDFs with mkdocs.

Here is a plugin created for this purpose: https://github.com/zhaoterryy/mkdocs-pdf-export-plugin

I was able to generate PDFs of all the Markdown pages by installing the plugin and configuring it in the mkdocs YAML file. I haven't confirmed that everything is as it should be because it's a LOT of PDFs. Furthermore, I don't think the Doxygen pages are included, so that would be another step.

It's an interesting idea, so I'll leave this open. Unfortunately, I don't have time to dig into this right now. Let us know if you can build the PDFs this way.