Generate website as book pdf

[gdolle]

Hi all,

• Is it possible somehow to generate a unique pdf, when the quarto project is a website ?
  (Currently, PDF seems to be generated per page.. )

• Or similarly, is it possible via the CLI to modify the type of project ? Something like quarto render /path/to/proj --type book --to pdf,
  quarto render /path/to/proj --type website --to html

G.

[dragonstyle]

Unfortunately a website can't be rendered as a book since the structure of the project file itself isn't compatible. We don't have tools to automatically convert a website project to a book project, so your best bet is to port your website project. If you'd like there is a command to generate book project scaffolding that you could use as a starter:

quarto create project

HTH and good luck!

[gdolle]

Currently I have a _quarto.yml that works quite well for both website and book,
the only thing I miss is a CLI to generate one or another from command line (using CI tools) without editing the _quarto.yml file by hand:

project:
  type: website  # <<<======
  
website:
  title: "My website"
  navbar:
     left:
        - href: file1.qmd
          text: menu1
        - href: file2.qmd
          text: menu2
        - href: webspecific.qmd
          text: blog

book:
  title: "My book"
  chapters:
     - href: file1.qmd
       text: chapter1
     - href: file2.qmd
       text: chapter2

format:
  html:
     theme: cosmo
  pdf:
     documentclass: book   # Other problem (not configurable per project type)

If I create a different project, I would have to duplicate the contents.. Or maybe have a way to choose the _playbook.yml to use.

[dragonstyle]

Have you tinkered with project profiles at all? New in 1.2 and seems like it should help here..

https://quarto.org/docs/projects/profiles.html

[gdolle]

Thanks @dragonstyle, splitting into two profiles works (the only drawback is 3 files instead of just one, but ok!)