how to download hibernate documentation

Question

Hello guys I am really sorry for such question. I could not download hibernate official documentation I was using online html version. Is it possible to download pdf of it?

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/5.2/userguide/html_single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html

thanks

Answer 1

We bundle the HTML version of the documentation with the final release bundles we post to SourceForge and Bintray.

If you look at our blog post here, click on the SourceForge or Bintray links and download the release archive. Inside the release archive is a documentation directory that contains all various documentation guides for that version's release.

While it may be HTML and not PDF, its at least an offline version either way.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, the official Hibernate's documenation sources do not provide us with pdf versions. But, there is the solution to this issue: we can download a single-html version and convert it by some html => pdf tool. The following solution suits for Linux, but you can download according command-line tools for Windows as well:

1. Let's create some local folder, go to there and then download the single-html version of the doc with embedded images:

   wget --no-parent --recursive --level=inf --page-requisites --wait=1 --reject-regex='index.html\?(.*)' https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/5.4/javadocs/
   

   (wget is a very common pre-installed tool for working with html web pages in Linux; if you are curious about cmd options of the above wget command, then you can read about them here)

2. As wget downloaded many dirs and subdirs, we need to go through them and find the folder with the original html file, Hibernate_User_Guide.html in this case.

3. Now, we have to convert the downloaded html page to pdf. We'll use wkhtmltopdf, which you can download here:

   wkhtmltopdf Hibernate_User_Guide.html Hibernate_User_Guide.pdf
   

   Or, if you need more configuration options:

   wkhtmltopdf --encoding utf-8 --page-size A4 --margin-left 5mm --margin-right 5mm --margin-top 5mm --margin-bottom 5mm Hibernate_User_Guide.html Hibernate_User_Guide.pdf
   

P.S. The approach, described above, could be used not only for Hibernate, Spring etc. It is the universal solution for converting almost any single-html document pages to PDF.

Answer 3

It is now version 6.0 and methods get quicker so about 15 seconds after typing (your milage may vary so wait as logging should give you a final message) note 44ppm is reasonable so 44pps (Pages Per Second) is blindingly fast.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --headless --print-to-pdf="C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\Desktop\PDFfromCMD.pdf" --print-to-pdf-no-header --enable-logging https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/6.0/userguide/html_single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html

[0428/035904.555:INFO:headless_shell.cc(659)] Written to file C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\Desktop\PDFfromCMD.pdf.

I get 659 current pages as a PDF

For current 6.1.4 hibernate_search_reference.pdf the pre-compiled version is at https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/search/reference/en-US/pdf/hibernate_search_reference.pdf

If you just want parts quickly from Asciidoc source download the zip as mentioned above and use the browser extension see https://stackoverflow.com/a/71181730/10802527

Answer 4

I think it is not possible to download a pdf version of the user guide of Hibernate.
But... ;) ;) you could go to that link
(http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/5.2/userguide/html_single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html)
which has all the hibernate user guide and print it as a pdf file. Ctrl+P on your browser and select print as pdf (I don't know if all browser have this functionality. Worst case you will need a plugin).
That's what I did and the resulting pdf is pretty decent.

Answer 5

(Dec 26, 2021)

I finally found a simple GUI-based approach to export the Hibernate documentation as a single PDF file whose table of contents can be read by any PDF viewer software.

First u need to go to the Hibernate releases page and download the Zip archive of your desired version to your local machine. All the docs for Hibernate in the raw AsciiDoc document format is located at the root directory /project/documentation/src/main/asciidoc of the folder unzipped from your Zip archive. U need the Asciidoctor PDF Ruby Gem (an Asciidoctor extension) to convert an AsciiDoc document directly to a PDF document.

Below are all the steps needed to install the extension:

1. The recommended method to install Ruby is using the Ruby enVironment Manager (RVM), follow all these steps to install it for your OS, recommended to use Homebrew to install the required dependencies.
2. After the RVM installation in the previous step is complete, run the following CLI command rvm install ruby --default to install the latest stable version of Ruby and select this version as the default one.
3. After the Ruby installation in the previous step is complete, run the following CLI command gem install asciidoctor-pdf to install the AsciiDoc-to-PDF converter. U might need to follow the Installation Troubleshooting if there is any error during the installation.
4. Follow my Stackoverflow answer to perform the conversion (just ignore the step to create a single pdf file from multiple .adoc files). Within the asciidoc folder mentioned above, remember to drag a folder of a specific section in the Hibernate doc such as userguide or quickstart to the VSCode IDE before the conversion.

Answer 6

I have used online HTTP Link to PDF tool, particularly https://www.online-convert.com/