> As Noah has discovered, PDFs are back. Purely as an FYI, there were > really three reasons that PDFs went away in 5.5:
Well I for one appreciate greatly that they there back in a nice 'portable' format. Thanks Dan and thanks Mitel-Customer Documentation group. "If all else fails read the manual (or hit it)." Noah Genner [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.genner.on.ca/noahville > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan York [mailto:dan_york@;mitel.com] > Sent: November 5, 2002 8:44 AM > To: Noah Genner > Cc: 'Dub Dublin'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] Documentation - and PDFs > > As Noah has discovered, PDFs are back. Purely as an FYI, there were > really three reasons that PDFs went away in 5.5: > > 1) Mitel provides only HTML and Windows Help versions for most of their > other products, so we were seeking to bring our offerings in line with > the other products; > > 2) responsibility for maintaining our documentation moved from me over to > Mitel's Customer Documentation department who, while being rather excited > about moving into the single-source DocBook XML-based environment I had > created, did have a steep learning curve; and > > 3) the Windows versions (since the Customer Documentation group is all > Windows-based) of the open source tools I used to create PDFs just did > not produce the quality of PDFs that we could release, and we didn't > have enough time in the 5.5 timeframe to figure it all out. > > This time around with 5.6, our Customer Documentation team is doing > great with DocBook XML and we did have a brief bit of time to beat some > of the tools into submission. :-) We also decided that we, ourselves, > wanted to bring back the PDFs... so we did. > > Anyway, that's the scoop. They are back - and should be in future > releases. > > Regards, > Dan > > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 09:58:42AM -0500, Noah Genner wrote: > > >...like the documentation for 5.5 > > > not being readily available in an easily downloadable form, but > > rather, > > > tied to Mitel's web site as a zillion pages. Eliminating PDF and > > single > > > big honkin' HTML file documentation formats may not signal hostility > > for > > > the SME developer and user community, but you have to realize it > > doesn't > > > buy you any credibility, either. > > > > > > I'm not going to weigh in here, yet ;), but I do have a comment about > > the documentation and it is a good one. > > I was just setting up another server last night and surfed on by the > > Mitel site and noticed that there is documentation up for the > > forthcoming SME 5.6, and in PDF to boot. Awesome, I missed it! Thanks to > > all in involved, and I hope it is for sharing? > > > > http://edocs.mitel.com/default-6000SBAP.htm > > > > > > Thanks, > > Noah Genner > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Dan York, Product Line Manager, SME Server and ServiceLink > Mitel Networks Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ph: +1-613-592-2122 Cell: +1-613-263-4312 Fax: +1-613-592-1175 > 350 Legget Drive, Ottawa, ON, K2K 2W7 Canada > http://www.mitel.com/smallbusiness/ > > -- > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e- > smith.org -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
