4 Jun
2005
4 Jun
'05
4:20 p.m.
From: "der Mouse" <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 4:08 PM
...and all of a sudden instead of discussing PDF's actual merits or
lack thereof, you shift to discussing whether it's popular.
For me it is simply a matter of what is most popular. There is another
format I would prefer to use but it doesn't have enough acceptance.
It is my wish that the documents last, the only way to do that is to use
PDF's.
A few of the documents I've created are over 10MB but post enough and use
have many giga-bytes.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
[...]
Instead of blaming people like myself for
doing it "the wrong way"
why don't you do it and let us judge if we like it your way. If we like
what you are doing better then we can all stop and let you
do it all ;-)
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'd rather have PDFs tha
nothing. Documentation in a difficult-to-use format is better than no
documentation at all.
But if we're discussing the pros and cons of various formats, then it
*is* appropriate to criticize brokennesses in the formats under
discussion.
I'll set aside a few giga-bytes for all the
manuals you scan.
Only one, so far, and the directory full of bzip2ed scan files is only
some 42 megs - and that includes the duplicates for the pages I scanned
in greyscale and/or colour as well as lineart.
ftp.rodents.montreal.qc.ca:/mouse/misc/EK-KA630-UG-001/ in case you're
curious.
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