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Remove link to the PDF downloads (#139142)
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20 changes: 12 additions & 8 deletions Doc/tools/templates/download.html
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Expand Up @@ -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>
Expand All @@ -44,6 +36,18 @@ <h1>Download Python {{ release }} Documentation</h1>

<p>These archives contain all the content in the documentation.</p>

<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.
</p>


<h2>Unpacking</h2>

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