9 Dec
2008
9 Dec
'08
12:07 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 9 Dec 2008 at 11:01, Fred Cisin wrote:
Why would one print the whole PDF just to have a couple of pages at
hand? <insert Windows defamation here>
Bottom line is, you can't really blame the format/doc type for misuse.
I promise I can screw up an ASCII document just as badly as any
text-based PDF, and I can make HTML behave even worse. If you don't
understand the tools you use, it doesn't matter which tool it is. Your
product will suck.
Doc
not having to run multiple megabytes through a
dial-up line to get a few
pages of text
print in a different font
being able to make changes without needing special Adobe software.
I'm somewhat in agreement with you here. To print 300-odd pages so
that you can have the information at your fingertips (I work by
having my documentation spread out on a table in front of me) is more
than just slightly annoying. If the same documentation were at least
converted to HTML online, I could browse to the pages that I needed,
instead of downloading everything and printing it out. What's
notable about the AVR documenation is that there's a table of
contents of sorts, but no index. So one is reduced to leafing
through the document until one finds what one needs.