[question] - Without writing a custom builder is it possible to turn off pdf generation?

[orsenthil]

Sometimes it is not desirable to create pdf and I wish if there was a setting to turn off automatic pdf generation. Do you think it is a good feature request?

[ericholscher]

Why do you want to disable PDF generation?

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Senthil Kumaran [email protected]
wrote:

Sometimes it is not desirable to create pdf and I wish if there was a
setting to turn off automatic pdf generation. Do you think it is a good
feature request?

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[orsenthil]

Well, I have this project of mine - http://www.learntosolveit.com/ which uses readthedocs, sphinx and I have also made a facility to post the snippet to IDEONE so that uses can run and see the result. This workflow is not suitable with pdf, so I wanted to disable that.

[hahnicity]

I'm also trying to setup a server. pdf is not necessary for use at our company. The HTML docs suffice. So I'd like to turn it off as well

[argriffing]

My builds are taking forever (like 1/2 hour) and I'm superstitiously blaming it on .pdf generation. Could I turn it off somehow so that I can see that I'm wrong?

[stevepiercy]

I would like to turn off automatic PDF generation for many Pylons Project projects. The support burden would be too great for too little benefit, given the HTML docs are more than adequate. Even with PDF generation, using Pyramid as an example, the PDF has several layout problems, especially with code samples.

A related question: Has PDF generation always been a default setting? It seems like it started around January 2015 in most of the Pylons Project projects.

[davidheijkamp]

I managed to achieve to disable PDF generation by changing the latex_documents variable in conf.py to this: latex_documents = []

[stevepiercy]

@davidheijkamp that tip does not work for our repo. A PDF build is still attempted and shows as "Passed", even though it actually fails. https://readthedocs.org/builds/pyramid_cookbook/2947148/ Maybe you have other configuration options.

[ericholscher]

That build seems to pass, it properly exits after not outputting anything,
which seems like success to me. We're working on adding the ability to
configure output formats as we speak, so hopefully this will be resolved in
the next couple weeks.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:08 AM, Steve Piercy [email protected]
wrote:

@davidheijkamp https://github.com/davidheijkamp that tip does not work
for our repo. A PDF build is still attempted and shows as "Passed", even
though it actually fails.
https://readthedocs.org/builds/pyramid_cookbook/2947148/ Maybe you have
other configuration options.

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[edmorley]

This was fixed in #1344 - there are now additional checkboxes to turn off PDF/epub in settings.

[gregmuellegger]

Yep, indeed. Thanks for pointing this out. Closing this ticket for now.

[stevepiercy]

Thank you!