[tomboy-list] Export entire notebook to PDF

Boyd Timothy btimothy at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 15:21:37 PST 2008


Alex,

Using PDF as the interchange format would ROCK!  I think you're on to
something.  ;)  Though theoretically, it would be possible to do the
same thing with our current HTML exporter.  But, PDF sounds like a
much more elegant solution.

-Boyd

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Alex Graveley <alex at beatniksoftware.com> wrote:
> Exporting to PDF is a great idea.  You could even make links to other
>  notes and URLs work.
>
>  One thought I just had was that of *importing* from a previously
>  generated PDF.  I wonder what kind of metadata we can stick into a
>  generated PDF full of Tomboy notes to allow reimporting them?
>
>  Importing/Exporting would allow using PDF as the default Tomboy
>  Notebook interchange format, for e.g. sending around in email.  This
>  would be awesome because it wouldn't require Tomboy or Linux to read
>  notebook content.
>
>  -Alex
>
>
>
>  On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Kevin Kubasik <kevin at kubasik.net> wrote:
>  > I really like this idea, (more the export by notebook than
>  >  specifically to pdf) but I would love to see this in the next release
>  >  of tomboy. If you could file a bug at bugzilla.gnome.org (or drop it
>  >  here at least http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/PlaceForNewIdeas). (Ideally
>  >  both!)
>  >
>  >  Anyways, love to hear more uses for Tomboy.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Boyd Timothy <btimothy at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Pete Deremer <sportman1280 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  > > Is it possible to get tomboy to export the entire notebook section to PDF.
>  >  >  > I use it for classes.  When i need to backup (to send it to non-linux users)
>  >  >  > or send an entire notebook i can't it is very annoying.
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > Is there any solution to this?
>  >  >
>  >  >  There's not an option right now to select multiple notes and export
>  >  >  them.  Exporting an entire notebook as a PDF is an excellent
>  >  >  suggestion and something we ought to look at doing in the next
>  >  >  release.  Right now, we're in bugfixing mode only.  That should be
>  >  >  lifted in a month.
>  >  >
>  >  >  -Boyd
>  >  >
>  >  >
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