Bug #81228 No pdf for X protocol documentation (but there is an .EPUB)

• Submitted: 29 Apr 2016 5:41
• Modified: 22 Aug 2016 8:46
• Reporter: Simon Mudd (OCA)
• Status: Won't fix
• Category: MySQL Server: Documentation
• Severity: S4 (Feature request)
• Version: 5.7.12
• OS: Any
• CPU Architecture: Any

[29 Apr 2016 5:41] Simon Mudd

Description:
I see when looking at the X protocol definition there's only an EPUB file.
With most other MySQL documentation there's a PDF yet there is not one for this info.

How to repeat:
Look at https://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/x-protocol-messages-message-structure.html, bottom left and see there's no PDF

Suggested fix:
Please provide a PDF or other formats apart from the current format.
Reading this documentation online is quite hard if you do it via the html interface as there's currently a need to move from one place to another.  A pdf makes it possible to download all the documentation in one go which is better.

[15 Jul 2016 11:50] MySQL Verification Team

Hello Simon,

Thank you for the report.

Thanks,
Umesh

[5 Aug 2016 11:20] Stefan Hinz

Posted by developer:
 
We tried hard to create as PDF version of this book that would work, but failed. The book contains diagrams that cannot reasonably be sized down so that they aren't cut off in PDF. That's the reason why we're not providing a PDF version of this particular book. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[22 Aug 2016 8:46] Simon Mudd

Thanks for trying to do this.

To be honest the pdf format is not really my main concern. I would like to see a full protocol specification and a text format would be fine.