Investigate ways to have print and portable versions of the Design Guide

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Investigate ways to have print and portable versions of the Design Guide #57

Open jhung opened 3 years ago

jhung commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem?

On occasion, there is a need to have the Design Guide available in a more portable format - this includes print versions, EPUB, and PDF.

Originally filed as FLOE-490

Describe the solution you'd like

Have the ability to generate EPUB and PDF copies of the design guide that can be printed or viewed offline.

In considering a solution, consultation should be made with the designers (like @cherylhjli , @dayotte) about the intended output dimensions, whether the card format is to be maintained, and what to do about long content that does not fit completely on a single double-sided page.

greatislander commented 3 years ago

@jhung I would be very interested in contributing to this task given my background with EPUB/PDF production from web sources :)

jhung commented 3 years ago

That would be great @greatislander !

Having looked into a solution previously, the biggest design issue is the legacy decision to have the print content fit on a duplexed 5x7 card which adds complexity in terms of layout, and page overflow.

In particular the questions to resolve are:

Is the guide sticking with a card layout?
How should content exceeding 1 duplexed card be handled?
How are diagrams to be handled on a smaller page size given they will lack the resolution to be legible, etc.

I'm sure there are more questions, but a lot of this can be alleviated if the guide was a standard 8.5x11" and A4 document.