On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 11:37 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:49:52 +0200, Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Would it be possible to combine these documents somehow to get to one > > comprehensive "manual", preferably in PDF format? > > > > > NOOO! not more pdf! > > pdf is closed , proprietary difficult to modify, huge and generally bad. > > it is a pain to use, displays poorly , has no search ability, no hyper > linking and especially on non-windows is genreally a PITA/ > > It has some legitimate value for buisness documents, may be, where making > it difficult to change is desirable. > > It is not desirable here. > > m2c. >
It might be a pain to use at times, but the rest of your arguments fall down badly. Displays poorly, depends on how it is written. I have seen more web pages that will not render (with anything other than Microsoft IE) than pdfs that will not display reasonably in open source pdf viewers, such as gnome pdf viewer or xpdf. As for the rest of your arguments, PDF is just a document format. It is not the document that implements a search functionality, but the end user program (Gnome PDF view for example does). Gpdf will allow the use of hyperlinks. The reason to push on with using pdf as one of the preferred formats is that generating a table of contents/index is doable. I have seen web pages cut in half by browsers and you can't guarantee the position of an image when printed. PDFs rock for printing, HTML for reading off screen. George Patterson _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
