[ITK-dev] VTK Textbook and User's Guide now available for download

[Francois Budin]

How about writing the book in a Jupyter notebook using a Python or a
Javascript kernel to run the examples? I know it is possible to export the
content of notebooks as PDFs through LaTeX, although I am not sure how the
formatting is handled and if that would work for a book.

Francois

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Will Schroeder <will.schroeder at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Kitware is releasing the VTK Textbook and VTK User's Guide for PDF
> download. Follow the links below to a landing page where you can buy a
> printed version, or download a PDF.
>
> Longer term, the plan is to convert these books to LaTeX (from Framemaker)
> and place the content into an open repository. The first step is to mostly
> duplicate what exists now; eventually we have the ambitious goal to
> completely rewrite / recombine / rethink the books. For example, using
> VTK.js (under development now) to offer web interaction with examples etc.
> We can certainly use the talents of the community to take this challenge
> on, so if you are interested please let me know.
>
> The Visualization Toolkit An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics (4th
> ed.)
> http://www.vtk.org/vtk-textbook/
> pdf: http://www.kitware.com/products/books/VTKTextbook.pdf
>
> *The VTK User’s Guide*
> http://www.vtk.org/vtk-users-guide/
> pdf: http://www.kitware.com/products/books/VTKUsersGuide.pdf
>
> Best, please let me know if there are issues or concerns.
> W
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