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Documentation Printable
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| [2023-02-16 17:19:57] |
| User303857 - Posts: 132 |
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Hello Sierra, I see this link for documentation. You can download an offline copy of the documentation. https://www.sierrachart.com/downloads/SierraChartDocumentation.zip Is there a printable PDF or Document, that I can read without looking at a screen? Would like to print the entire thing, and eventually read it all. There are so many sections & subsections in the web page version, so printing would be a task. Thank You |
| [2023-02-16 22:11:11] |
| John - SC Support - Posts: 39675 |
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Sorry, but we do not have a PDF version of the documentation. Just the one option to download as you have found.
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| [2023-02-16 22:14:34] |
| John - SC Support - Posts: 39675 |
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You had us curious if there was a Website to PDF converter, and in doing a quick Internet search, there are a few. So you might want to look to see if you can find something that will work for what you want.
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| [2023-06-29 23:32:10] |
| User303857 - Posts: 132 |
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Hello Support, well I have just read the entire documentation on Charting. Next is to read all of the Studies and Indicators, Trading & Technical Studies Reference. I was able to convert all of the online web pages into PDF format. But, the very annoying problem is that , the font is too small and difficult to read, it prints at about 8 point or less. And my eyeballs are having a margin call. No, print shops have been able to increase the font size without making a mess out of all the graphics & borders , layouts.... PDF will just not cooperate. Is there anyway you can make available the manual in a .doc format so that the font can be eligible when printed? You must have created it in something other than web format at some point..... Thank You |
| [2023-06-30 13:02:35] |
| John - SC Support - Posts: 39675 |
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Actually, the documentation is only in web format. Our general principle is to keep things as original as possible to avoid any extra processing. Therefore, we do not have it in any other format. For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing |
| [2023-06-30 13:34:40] |
| Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 19461 |
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There actually is a single page version of the documentation. We have to find the link for that.
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| [2023-06-30 16:05:51] |
| Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 19461 |
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https://www.sierrachart.com/downloads/SierraChartDocumentation.zip
Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing |
| [2023-06-30 20:41:54] |
| User303857 - Posts: 132 |
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Already have that, that is what I used to make the PDF manual out of... Already have a complete PDF of all of those pages. Not wanting to read a computer screen for months on end ... would rather read off of paper with 12 point font. Don't understand how a .doc file for download is avoiding extra processing.... But let's be clear on one thing >>> 90% or more of the problems posted on the support board can be solved by reading the manual. So, in reality , actually, you are creating more work for yourselves & wasted time by not having such a document easily available. Regards |
| [2023-07-01 18:42:14] |
| Sierra_Chart Engineering - Posts: 19461 |
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We will look this over.
Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, use the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing |
| [2023-07-01 21:09:28] |
| User303857 - Posts: 132 |
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I will make do, I know there are more important tech problems to manage on a daily basis for your team. I did convert a PDF to a .doc online it mostly worked but has some blank space areas on the pages , but all of the info & images looks like they are there. But , I am using open office to open the file , and do not have word, so that could be causing the added white blank space added. I can send you all of the converted PDF files from the zip file if you want those just let me know? How to do that. It might have to be a google drive or I could get drop box... I have the: CHARTING STUDIES and INDICATORS TRADING TECHNICAL STUDIES REFERENCE Thanks Again Date Time Of Last Edit: 2023-07-01 21:16:21
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| [2023-09-23 18:36:51] |
| User509909 - Posts: 2 |
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I also see advantages to read it in paper. I have converted the documentation as it was yesterday to pdf, and adjusted margins and font-size and some other things to increase the readability and space of the print. It can be refined but I think is enough. Essentially I have downloaded the documentation and changed the css web styles and passed it to wkhtmltopdf. I can share the pdfs files or the process of how I did it if someone is interested. I think it could also be done with a documentation generator like pandoc or sphinx, but are more complex tools that wkhtmltopdf, and would require more work to build a first setup generator, but would output a more polished document. About the problem of small font that User303857 talked about, I found it was produced in my case because there are some images with a big width, so the converter from html to pdf reduces the font size as what seems a way to adjust the general width so the image is included without being cut. I solved it in the css styles setting a img{max-width:100%}. The total page count I obtained in pdf from the complete documentation is 3565 pages with this distribution of number of documents and pages: 1.- Getting Started: 10 documents / 37 pages 2.- Charting: 27 / 495 3.- Studies and Indicators: 18 / 486 4.- Trading: 25 / 667 5.- ACSIL: 21 / 573 6.- Spreadsheets: 10 / 141 7.- Settings Windows: 11 / 163 8.- Menu Commands: 11 / 78 9.- Managing Symbol Data: 11 / 65 10.- External Interfaces: 22 / 233 11.- Help - FAQ: 49 / 191 12.- Supported Data and Trading Services: 27 / 245 13.- Support Pages: 3 / 11 14.- Other Pages: 23 / 136 15.- Sierra Chart Account Management: 6 / 29 Date Time Of Last Edit: 2023-09-23 20:33:53
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| [2023-09-23 23:48:58] |
| User303857 - Posts: 132 |
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I did get most of it converted, but it sounds like you had better formatting options. A few of the chapters/sections printed in very small font like 6 or 8. And, a lot of the pages cut off a few lines at the bottom of the pages. What I did print , I did so in black & white, a lot cheaper at the print shop. Adobe pdf is the worst for printing, and trying to convert it to word format, I like paper ,but might be better with a Kindle or something. I sent you a dm , I would like to see/get your version , it sounds better than what I created... but I have read Trading and Charting so far. I think next I will read Studies and Indicators. And also Steidlmayers Market Profile, six part study. |
| [2024-12-07 11:29:29] |
| User676363 - Posts: 82 |
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There are tools like DEVONthink (DT3) that will allow you to import all the documentation and then allow you to create PDF versions of them including the images that are searchable. And you have AI tools like NotebookLM.google.com that builds a language model around your PDF so that you can ask questions and get relevant results. Here's an example PDF in the attachment. Just drop it into notebooklm. Keep in mind the quality here isn't great as I did this as a complete export of all the stuff that is in the zip that sierrachart supplies There are lots of missing links and errors in the docs, so that will be evident as you scroll through the PDF. Still, it gives a nice idea of what you can do if you want to just ask DT3 to create a PDF of specific sections of the documentation that you currate yourself. |
 SierraChart Documentation Including Images as of 2024-12-07.pdf - Attached On 2024-12-07 11:24:48 UTC - Size: 95.78 MB - 166 views |
| [2024-12-08 21:40:15] |
| User303857 - Posts: 132 |
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The problem with the PDF is text is too small when it gets printed. I asked several print shops to increase the font and they could not do it.
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| [2024-12-08 23:48:08] |
| User509909 - Posts: 2 |
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I share what I did in september 2023, in case it could be useful. I did download by myself the html documentation, ordered the html files in the 15 sections of the documentation, and then modified the file includes/Minified.css to adjust some things like width of images, margins and font-size, and then iterated through the html files with wkhtmltopdf. I can provide more details, like the modified Minified.css or the parameters I used on wkhtmltopdf, if someone is interested in trying to replicate it. This contains only the documentation section. It doesn't include other sections of the web like the User Image Gallery. It includes the ACSIL source code (ACS_Source) in HTML, PDF and the original .h and .cpp files. I didn't include the documentation of every technical study linked on the TechnicalStudiesReference page (Technical Studies Reference) Some more details in the post #11 of this thread. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2024-12-08 23:59:26
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| Sierra Chart Documentation in PDF (2023-09-22).zip - Attached On 2024-12-08 23:45:23 UTC - Size: 40 MB - 185 views |
| [2024-12-10 08:17:09] |
| User676363 - Posts: 82 |
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The problem with the PDF is text is too small when it gets printed. I asked several print shops to increase the font and they could not do it.
Did you open the PDF I provided in post 13?For me, the text is enormous and prints beautifully. However, I still think it's best to just use tools like https://notebooklm.google.com because then you can ask it to write the docs in a way that helps you. You can ask questions and get answers, etc. You can even ask it to write ACSIL code for you and then refine that elsewhere using Gemini or Copilot in Visual Studio Code, for example. Personally, if I had eyesight problems and really wanted to read the docs, I would use a Kindle Scribe or some kind of tablet that is similar and just go through page by page on the web site or using the PDF I provided. Should be good, but if you can be more specific about your problem, that would be great. |
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