Kartoza Handbook

Organisational Handbook and Technical Docs Repository for Kartoza. Here is where we highlight the procedures, principles and processes related to Development, DevOps and GIS, in line with the organisation's best practices. Please review this content at https://kartoza.github.io/TheKartozaHandbook for more information.

Building the Kartoza Handbook as a PDF

Check out the code

You need both the Kartoza Handbook repo and the mkdocs pdf building repo:

git clone git@github.com:kartoza/TheKartozaHandbook.git

Install Dependencies (non direnv and venv way)

You need to install these packages:

pip install mkdocs-with-pdf
pip install mkdocs-material
pip install mdx_gh_links
pip install mkdocs-pdf-export-plugin

Install Dependencies (venv way)

Initial setup

virtualenv --python=python3 env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Subsequent sessions:

source env/bin/activate

When you are done with your session, deactivate your venv:

deactivate

Using direnv (more preferred way)

Initial setup done once:

1. Install direnv with your package manager
2. Make sure it is set up in your bashrc

echo 'eval "$(direnv hook bash)"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

3. Enter this git directory in your shell
4. pip install -r requirements.txt

After this, whenever you enter the directory, direnv will load your direnv and penv for you. See .envrc for details on how it is configured.

Build the documentation

Note that whenever you add new sections to nav in the mkdocs.yml (used for building the web version), you should apply those same edits to mkdocs-pdf.yml if you want those new sections to appear in the pdf too.

cd  docs
./build-docs-pdf.sh
xdg-open TheKartozaHandbook.pdf

If you are in VSCode, you can also just run the 'Compile PDF' task. The generated PDF will be placed in docs/pdfs/.