| Georg Brandl | 7155a09 | 2008-01-16 20:27:56 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | {% extends "layout.html" %} | 
 | 2 | {% set title = 'Download' %} | 
 | 3 | {% block body %} | 
 | 4 |  | 
 | 5 | <h1>Download Python {{ release }} Documentation | 
 | 6 |   {%- if last_updated %} (last updated on {{ last_updated }}){% endif %}</h1> | 
 | 7 |  | 
 | 8 | <p>To download an archive containing all the documents for this version of | 
 | 9 | Python in one of various formats, follow one of links in this table. The numbers | 
 | 10 | in the table are the size of the download files in Kilobytes.</p> | 
 | 11 |  | 
 | 12 | {# XXX download links #} | 
 | 13 |  | 
 | 14 |  | 
 | 15 | <p>These archives contain all the content in the documentation section.</p> | 
 | 16 |  | 
 | 17 | <h2>Unpacking</h2> | 
 | 18 |  | 
 | 19 | <p>Unix users should download the .tar.bz2 archives; these are bzipped tar | 
 | 20 | archives and can be handled in the usual way using tar and the bzip2 | 
 | 21 | program. The <a href="http://www.info-zip.org">InfoZIP</a> unzip program can be | 
 | 22 | used to handle the ZIP archives if desired. The .tar.bz2 archives provide the | 
 | 23 | best compression and fastest download times.</p> | 
 | 24 |  | 
 | 25 | <p>Windows users can use the ZIP archives since those are customary on that | 
 | 26 | platform. These are created on Unix using the InfoZIP zip program. They may be | 
 | 27 | unpacked using the free WiZ tool (from the InfoZIP developers) or any other | 
 | 28 | tool for handling ZIP archives; any of them should work.</p> | 
 | 29 |  | 
 | 30 | <p>Note that the .tar.bz2 files are smaller than the other archives; Windows | 
 | 31 | users may want to install the bzip2 tools on their systems as well. Windows | 
 | 32 | binaries for a command-line tool are available at <a | 
 | 33 | href="http://www.bzip.org">The bzip2 and libbzip2 official home page</a>, but | 
 | 34 | most other archiving utilities support the tar and bzip2 formats as well.</p> | 
 | 35 |  | 
 | 36 |  | 
 | 37 | <h2>Problems</h2> | 
 | 38 |  | 
 | 39 | <p><strong>Printing PDFs using Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0:</strong> Adobe has | 
 | 40 | reportedly admitted that there is a bug in Acrobat Reader 5.0 which causes it | 
 | 41 | not to print at least some PDF files generated by pdfTeX. This software is used | 
 | 42 | to produce the PDF version of the Python documentation, and our documents | 
 | 43 | definately trigger this bug in Acrobat Reader. To print the PDF files, use | 
 | 44 | Acrobat Reader 4.x, ghostscript, or xpdf.</p> | 
 | 45 |  | 
 | 46 | <p>Reportedly, Acrobat Reader 6.0 can print these documents without this | 
 | 47 | problem, but we've not yet had an opportunity to confirm the report. Sadly, | 
 | 48 | version 6.0 is not yet available on Unix platforms.</p> | 
 | 49 |  | 
 | 50 | <p>If you have comments or suggestions for the Python documentation, please send | 
 | 51 | email to <a href="docs@python.org">docs@python.org</a>.</p> | 
 | 52 |  | 
 | 53 | {% endblock %} |