Removal of the Standalone Document export feature

[Fondor1]

I noticed in the office hours today discussion about the removal of the standalone document export feature. I assume this is referring to the HTML2PDF document generator experimental feature?

Was it decided that this feature will be removed? I find this feature helpful as a tool for customers to view and provide feedback on pdf exports of the content, but I can also understand the extra work it takes to maintain such a capability.

If this feature is removed, is the next best way to provide to a customer a "consolidated" view of requirements (aside from the strictdoc files themselves), a PDF export via Sphinx/LaTeX?

I also notice there is a Python API in development that may one day be leveraged to export strictdoc content into another format. Might that also be another method for export someday, if someone desires a more custom output than can be provided by Sphinx?

[stanislaw]

Hey @Fondor1, the feature to be removed is this one: 8.1.2. Standalone HTML pages. This one is about embedding all assets into HTML as base64. It is one of the oldest features, originally requested by a single user for a very specific application, but now, after a few years of development, this feature causes more maintenance issues than the value it brings.

The HTML2PDF feature is not affected!

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