From: Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com>
To: Milan Zamazal <pdm@zamazal.org>
Cc: help-gnats@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnats/263
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 17:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
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At 21:55 07.12.01 +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote:
>We shouldn't be so much generous, since this would make the distribution
>significantly larger. I think we should include Info; PostScript and
>HTML are under consideration, there is no point in inclusion of DVI and
>PDF, IMHO.
The fact that the distribution would be larger is a valid point, but I
think the case for including PDF is strong (DVI isn't very important, since
it for most purposes is simply a step in the creation of a Postscript
file), since Info and Postscript are cumbersome formats to handle when you
aren't on a Linux / UNIX platform. Very few Windows machines have software
installed that allows Postscript viewing on-sceen, and even sending a
Postscript file to the printer from a Windows machine is a challenge. Thus,
I'd ask you to reconsider, and if PDF isn't included we should at the very
least provide a downloadable version from the GNU website. A raw PDF
created from the current manual runs at 365kB gzipped, but I believe that
running it through an optimization in Adobe Acrobat should reduce the size
significantly.
- Yngve
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2001-10-29 5:47 ` gnats/263 Milan Zamazal
2001-11-03 1:42 ` gnats/263 Hugo Gayosso
2001-12-13 10:18 ` gnats/263 Hugo Gayosso
2001-12-03 14:00 ` Yngve Svendsen [this message]
2001-12-30 17:25 ` gnats/263 Yngve Svendsen
2002-01-01 3:45 ` gnats/263 Milan Zamazal
2002-01-01 8:00 ` gnats/263 Yngve Svendsen
2002-01-02 12:50 ` gnats/263 Milan Zamazal
2002-01-17 19:14 ` gnats/263 Hugo Gayosso
2001-12-08 12:30 ` gnats/263 Milan Zamazal
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