From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yngve Svendsen To: Milan Zamazal Cc: help-gnats@gnu.org Subject: Re: gnats/263 Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 17:25:00 -0000 Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20011231014113.00a12330@10.10.1.1> References: <87k7vyn41q.fsf@blackbird.zamazal.org> X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/msg00291.html Message-ID: <20011230172500.AWHFNBUhdn0WBcVpOxTUTJOIsZuf_rWzeAtoHfx2PNE@z> 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 _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats