[Doc-SIG] Issues with 2.1 doc PDF files

Dinu Gherman gherman@darwin.in-berlin.de
Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:30:32 +0200


"Fred L. Drake, Jr." wrote:
> 
> Dan Schmidt writes:
>  > I don't view the Python docs with PDF, but I read many other PDF files
>  > 'onscreen' rather than printing them out.
> 
>   Would you *like* to be able to read the Python PDF version onscreen,
> or is one of the other versions preferable for you?
>   I guess what I'd like to figure out is how many people would like to
> use a version that they're not using because there's some impediment
> (files are too large to d/l, lacks functionality, has formatting
> problems, etc.).

I'll add only that much here: I like viewing PDFs onscreen
because unlike HTML they allow to search stuff and nicely
print parts quickly. I'm less bothered by the paper layout 
which is not ideal for the screen.

I'll come back to your previous comments tomorrow...

Dinu