From 0a8ba6f8179e621dfc7a4666ed5fae30122ab690 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:59:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Remove link to the PDF downloads (#139142)

(cherry picked from commit 6b5f15698a436591f7c305c576a2d366c38d9997)
---
 Doc/tools/templates/download.html | 15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/tools/templates/download.html b/Doc/tools/templates/download.html
index b5353d6fb77ab4..069ae58fcf5c82 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/templates/download.html
+++ b/Doc/tools/templates/download.html
@@ -20,14 +20,6 @@ <h1>Download Python {{ release }} Documentation</h1>
 
 <table class="docutils">
   <tr><th>Format</th><th>Packed as .zip</th><th>Packed as .tar.bz2</th></tr>
-  <tr><td>PDF (US-Letter paper size)</td>
-    <td><a href="{{ dlbase }}/python-{{ release }}-docs-pdf-letter.zip">Download</a> (ca. 13 MiB)</td>
-    <td><a href="{{ dlbase }}/python-{{ release }}-docs-pdf-letter.tar.bz2">Download</a> (ca. 13 MiB)</td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr><td>PDF (A4 paper size)</td>
-    <td><a href="{{ dlbase }}/python-{{ release }}-docs-pdf-a4.zip">Download</a> (ca. 13 MiB)</td>
-    <td><a href="{{ dlbase }}/python-{{ release }}-docs-pdf-a4.tar.bz2">Download</a> (ca. 13 MiB)</td>
-  </tr>
   <tr><td>HTML</td>
     <td><a href="{{ dlbase }}/python-{{ release }}-docs-html.zip">Download</a> (ca. 9 MiB)</td>
     <td><a href="{{ dlbase }}/python-{{ release }}-docs-html.tar.bz2">Download</a> (ca. 6 MiB)</td>
@@ -44,6 +36,13 @@ <h1>Download Python {{ release }} Documentation</h1>
 
 <p>These archives contain all the content in the documentation.</p>
 
+<p>{% trans %}
+We no longer provide pre-built PDFs of the documentation.
+To build a PDF archive, follow the instructions in the
+<a href="https://devguide.python.org/documentation/start-documenting/#building-the-documentation">Developer's Guide</a>
+and run <code>make dist-pdf</code> in the <code>Doc/</code> directory of a copy of the CPython repository.
+{% endtrans %}</p>
+
 
 <h2>Unpacking</h2>
 

From 0b066ddcd65cc476d9e570fc8ac130a9245a783c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Turner <9087854+aa-turner@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:15:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Link to the existing archives

---
 Doc/tools/templates/download.html | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/tools/templates/download.html b/Doc/tools/templates/download.html
index 069ae58fcf5c82..c460de963fa108 100644
--- a/Doc/tools/templates/download.html
+++ b/Doc/tools/templates/download.html
@@ -36,12 +36,17 @@ <h1>Download Python {{ release }} Documentation</h1>
 
 <p>These archives contain all the content in the documentation.</p>
 
-<p>{% trans %}
-We no longer provide pre-built PDFs of the documentation.
+<p>
+We no longer provide updates to the pre-built PDFs of the documentation.
+The previously-built archives are still available and may be of use:
+<a href="{{ dlbase }}/python-{{ release }}-docs-pdf-a4.zip">A4 PDF (.zip archive)</a>;
+<a href="{{ dlbase }}/python-{{ release }}-docs-pdf-a4.tar.bz2">A4 PDF (.tar.bz2 archive)</a>;
+<a href="{{ dlbase }}/python-{{ release }}-docs-pdf-letter.zip">US-Letter PDF (.zip archive)</a>;
+<a href="{{ dlbase }}/python-{{ release }}-docs-pdf-letter.tar.bz2">US-Letter PDF (.tar.bz2 archive)</a>.
 To build a PDF archive, follow the instructions in the
 <a href="https://devguide.python.org/documentation/start-documenting/#building-the-documentation">Developer's Guide</a>
 and run <code>make dist-pdf</code> in the <code>Doc/</code> directory of a copy of the CPython repository.
-{% endtrans %}</p>
+</p>
 
 
 <h2>Unpacking</h2>

From 2208971323ec5bc6218660ab2e4c2f92f565c14e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Turner <9087854+aa-turner@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:15:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] [3.11] Remove link to the PDF downloads (GH-139142)
 (cherry picked from commit 6b5f15698a436591f7c305c576a2d366c38d9997)

Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <9087854+AA-Turner@users.noreply.github.com>