From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jun 11 01:59:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA25332 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 01:59:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA25327 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 01:59:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.12]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA19683; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 10:53:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27365; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 10:53:42 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980611105342.A27106@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 10:53:42 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider To: Sue Blake , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PDF References: <005f01cb08e8$b46f0280$528b02c7@billing.montana.com> <19980611095049.12365@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <19980611095049.12365@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 09:50:50AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 1998-06-11 09:50:50 +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 04:03:05PM -0600, Franklin Marmon wrote: > > I was just wondering if the PDF version of the BSD faq would be > > available soon? > > I was going to throw the FAQ and Handbook into hyperlinked PDF as well as > a Microsoft-tolerant text file while this box has an NT partition. > Trouble is I don't know how to get or create a postscript version that is > fairly recent. the postscript version is available at any web mirror. > The docs I can see on the FTP site are dated 19 December, except for two > PDFs (also based on the same December version?) that have appeared recently. No, the pdf file are up to date (19 May). I create the pdf file with adobe distiller from the postscript version. > I think it's very important to have up to date docs suitable for other > platforms available, important enough to spend some time on it, but > I don't know where to start. Am I just looking in the wrong place? > Or do I have to go and get my head around cvsup and sgml conversions? -- Wolfram Schneider http://freebsd.org/~w/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message