Christian Heimes | 679db4a | 2008-01-18 09:56:22 +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 %} |