And if you need to have some pretty formatting or images use HTML. On another perspective on the issue. HTML is a fairly low overhead way to encode text. PDF files on the other hand have a lot of overhead.
If we look at this one page PDF it takes up 164KB where as a HTML document with image would probably be 5kb. If we have 1000 functions in OpenJUMP with 1 page of help the PDF files would be around a 164MB download as opposed to about 2MB with HTML (my math is correct the image 3KB is shared across all the pages in the HTML with only 2KB of text that differs). Just another way to think about it. Your help files should not be bigger in size than the code! Paul Larry Becker wrote: > PDF is just a non-standard way to do help. All you have is some > text. You should just pop up a window with a text component and > display it. Don't make me open another (non-free) application to view > your help. > > Larry > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
