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To cut a long story short, I recently decided to try and convert Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby into a properly paginated A4 pdf suitable for printing. My effort can be downloaded by clicking the link below.

Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (A4 pdf, 7.5MB - left click to open in a new window, or right / alt-click and save-as)

For the original html source, refer to Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby website.

You will get the best results with this file if your printer can print to both sides of a sheet, and can print borderless. If your printer is not capable of duplex printing, you’ll just use a lot more paper… and if you can’t do edge-to-edge printing you will have to use scaling options if you want to see the page numbers (or you will get a bit of a silly crop of header and footer areas).

For more information on the project and why it was undertaken, see this blog entry.

The Guide is released under a Creative Commons license. I have offered this interpretation of it to Why for publishing on his / her / their(?) site, but as yet without response.