diff --git a/HACKING.rst b/HACKING.rst
index 42a0a4581dc5..d745a30753b5 100644
--- a/HACKING.rst
+++ b/HACKING.rst
@@ -103,16 +103,18 @@ which will cause a virtualenv with all of the needed dependencies to be
 created and then inside of the virtualenv, the docs will be created and
 put into doc/build/html.
 
-If you'd like a PDF of the documentation, you'll need LaTeX installed, and
-additionally some fonts. On Ubuntu systems, you can get what you need with::
+Building a PDF of the Documentation
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+If you'd like a PDF of the documentation, you'll need LaTeX and ImageMagick
+installed, and additionally some fonts. On Ubuntu systems, you can get what you
+need with::
 
-    apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended
+    apt-get install texlive-full imagemagick
 
-Then run ``build_sphinx_latex``, change to the build dir and run ``make``.
-Like so::
+Then you can then use the ``build_latex_pdf.sh`` script in toos/ to take care
+of both the the sphinx latex generation and the latex compilation. For example::
 
-    tox -evenv -- python setup.py build_sphinx_latex
-    cd build/sphinx/latex
-    make
+    tools/build_latex_pdf.sh
 
-You should wind up with a PDF - Nova.pdf.
+The script must be run from the root of the Nova repository and it'll copy the
+output pdf to Nova.pdf in that directory.
diff --git a/tools/build_latex_pdf.sh b/tools/build_latex_pdf.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..1d745afd6aa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/build_latex_pdf.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Build tox venv and use it
+tox -edocs --notest
+source .tox/docs/bin/activate
+
+# Build latex source
+sphinx-build -b latex doc/source doc/build/latex
+
+pushd doc/build/latex
+
+# Workaround all the sphinx latex bugs
+
+# Convert svg to png (requires ImageMagick)
+convert architecture.svg architecture.png
+
+# Update the latex to point to the new image, switch unicode chars to latex
+# markup, and add packages for symbols
+sed -i -e 's/architecture.svg/architecture.png/g' -e 's/\\code{✔}/\\checkmark/g' -e 's/\\code{✖}/\\ding{54}/g' -e 's/\\usepackage{multirow}/\\usepackage{multirow}\n\\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,latexsym}\n\\usepackage{pifont}/g' Nova.tex
+
+# To run the actual latex build you need to ensure that you have latex installed
+# on ubuntu the texlive-full package will take care of this
+make
+
+deactivate
+popd
+
+cp doc/build/latex/Nova.pdf .