From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jan 1 09:28:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01445 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 09:28:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (baerenklau.de.freebsd.org [195.185.195.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01440 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 09:28:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from w@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by baerenklau.de.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id SAA17526; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 18:28:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from w@panke.de.freebsd.org) Received: (from w@localhost) by campa.panke.de.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23537; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:41:33 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from w) Message-ID: <19990101174132.A23530@panke.de.freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:41:32 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Timothy J Luoma , Wolfram Schneider Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Several documentation questioons (all short) References: <19981228184247.E8797@panke.de.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Timothy J Luoma on Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:44:52PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1998-12-28 14:44:52 -0500, Timothy J Luoma wrote: > On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > > On 1998-12-25 01:45:47 -0500, Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > > 1) Is there a reason why there can't be gzipped versions of the handbook > > > offered in addition to the non-gzipped ones? > > > > No - except lack of time of the FreeBSD developers. > > It that something that a brainless newbie (ie me) could help with? No. > Unfortunately the PS version doesn't look right for me under NeXTStep (the > pages all go off the far right margin) and I wanted a printable/formatted > version, so I needed the PDF one (which looked fine except for a few > places). The PDF version was generated from the PS version, so there are both more ore less equal. > Another possilby dumb q: I have the 2.2.7 CDs, is there a way for me to > generate the PDF handbook off those? (I don't have a working FreeBSD > system yet, but I can mount the CDs under NeXTstep and if I can make the > handbook.PDF file off whatever documentation is there, I would use that. Use the Adobe distiller $ distill handbook.ps -- Wolfram Schneider http://freebsd.org/~w/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message