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Published by Bart on September 17th, 2008 in Documentation
If you're not always online, it can be kind of awkward having to rely on the Blender Wiki documentation (I guess ;-). Next time you're out hiking, painting the roof or are just without a broadband connection, make sure you have your copy of Marco Ardito's Blender Wiki PDF with you!
Marco writes:
Hi, if anyone interested i did it in pdf format. I plan to update it monthly. jesterking offered to host the (quite large) file here. Up to now, it is a single pdf file, over 1700 pages, about 52 MB.
That's a pretty cool project Macro, I hope you'll keep it up for a long time!
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wow.. that's a great idea.. very cool!
Wow that's very usefull. yes update it monthly please, Thank You so much!!
YES! Very useful for those of us whose primary blender rig is not connected to the Internet.
Wow, yes that's very useful. Keep up the good work!!
this is very useful for when blender.org goes down..
i can be less dependent on the online version now..
The last time I looked at the Blender Wiki, it was horribly out of date. Really, someone needs to put together a project to update the Wiki to the latest version of Blender. I can't tell all of you how many issues I had learning Blender by trying to rely upon the Wiki. At the least, the Blender Wiki needs a disclaimer stating that "these tutorials are written for Blender X.XX and do not reference interface changes beyond Blender X.XX."
And, honestly…. the Blender Foundation needs to stop moving things around in the interface if they expect the Wiki to be at all useful. This issue almost drove me away from Blender entirely… until I found the Tufts University tutorials. *Those* are current; the Wiki (the last time I checked) is not.
still pretty good `~…
the german wiki is better up to date , blame it on german grundlichkeit.:P
@Occulus: Tufts U tuts? Can you give a link?
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
I've wished for this for some time now and just haven't had the time to do it.
Why not to ZIP it well! To reduce download size. Think it would be better for all! Does anybody agree with me? Please Do it for all world!
@ ChristianK, http://www.gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html wait for page to fully load….
Cool idea!!! Thanx!
Great job. Thank you very much !
My best computer, on which I use Blender most of the time is not connected to Internet.
This PDF manual will be very usefull !
yep, very useful! thank you!
Hello everybody! :)
as i said, i needed that! so i made it :))
then i thought: maybe someone else needs this too.
see: http://www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13461
btw, i made another try with pytondocs: (see:
http://www.letworyinteractive.com/b/2008/09/blender-python-api-as-pdf/)
i found quite easy to use htmldoc (i need just one click to rebuild it directly from the online wiki.. quite easy, uh?) (see http://www.htmldoc.org)
unfortunately that program is actually not utf-8 compatible and so localized versions (that could be just as easy) render out really awkward pdfs… i'm working on it , tough :) i'm exploring two ways:
- a transcoding proxy utf-8 -> iso-8859-1 . maybe some privoxy expert around?
- process pages with php. in this way i could easily strip "unneeded" parts as headers and footers, navigation menus. lets see what happens.
maybe wiki site mantainers could create a specific layout to help the whole process, who knows? :)
i think they could do easily this better than me but in the meanwhile i needed that pdf.
@Timmy: it's big because its BIG! i just tried to 7z/ultra it and its 46 MB instead of 52…
i could upload separate chapters (see http://www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13461)
nut i'm using jesterking's space and publishing efforts so… well once a month 50MB is not too much.
try to use some downloader to get it in multiple steps.
if you need other (not localized) sections just ask. I'm working on Scripts dcumentation as single PDF. It should be useful, although often quite old documentation.
Have fun!
Marco
Thank you very much. It's a very nice service.
Urgh! i just noticed that the news title is "Download the Blender Wiki in PDF"
well that's misleading: the pdf is ONLY about the "Manual" section of the wiki, not ALL of the wiki! :D
Marco
@Marco: fixed!
Maybe get this seeded on a torrent site somewhere?
Cool, now I can put it on my iPod Touch and read it at normal speed…
Occulus wrote:
"and do not reference interface changes beyond Blender X.XX."
You dont know at 2.45 it will not work with 2.46.
Wiki is just to stupid to help maintain this.
Occulus wrote:
"And, honestly…. the Blender Foundation needs to stop moving things around in the interface"
I total agree. Same goes for book writers. In one year a book can be obsolete.
There you have a disadvantage of opensource; no marketing director syncing needs of users towards the product.
But… a good resource is the release log: http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/
Big read, but brings you up-to-date and experienced users learn something new.
This is awesome! I've been waiting for something like this for a long time!
NathanKP - Inkweaver Review
An updated manual is very welcome.
Thank you.
@Occulus
I don't about the tutorial section but the manual always states on the header for what version the article was written for.
the manual side of the wiki is pretty useful some of the stuff can be outdated but still revelant and it beats a lot of other wiki's I've visted that are pretty empty.
That's great. I'm new user in Blender, I don't have online internet at my home.
Thanks.
Even though the wiki isn't always up to date [as some have already said], I am glad that somewhere made a PDF! And, since it is planned to have the PDF updated monthly, the wiki will be on track with the current version of Blender eventually. Thanks to everyone who made this happen.
Brilliant ! BLESS YOU !!
Documentation dispersion is the single biggest barrier to greater acceptance of Blender: thank you for rounding it all up !!
Hi.
Super documentation. Thanks a lot!
Cheers.. Robert.
Thank you!
Thanks! :D
Hi all!
just to let you know that (as promised! :)) i have updated (&improved!)
the Blended PDF Wiki Manual. And Nathan is still hosting it and
publishing the links at:
http://www.letworyinteractive.com/b/category/blender/
Plus, there are more docs available now:
* Wiki Manual PDF (51MB), updated 2008.10.01
o This is the PDF version of the Manual from the http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual
* Script Catalog PDF (6MB), updated 2008.10.02
o This is the PDF version of the Script Catalog from http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Scripts/Catalog
* Reference PDF (6MB), updated 2008.10.02
o This is the PDF version of the Blender Reference from http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Reference
* Release Logs PDF (4MB), updated 2008.10.02
o The release logs until 2.47 from http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs
Ciao!
Marco