From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 2 04:25:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA04170 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:25:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk ([194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA04103 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:24:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuart@internationalschool.co.uk) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (bamboo.tis [192.168.0.81]) by internationalschool.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03258; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:14:51 GMT Message-ID: <34FAA2BC.44C52F83@internationalschool.co.uk> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 12:14:52 +0000 From: stuart henderson Reply-To: stuart@internationalschool.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sue Blake CC: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbies mailing list References: <19980302172511.58160@welearn.com.au> <19980302182544.45884@welearn.com.au> <19980302103201.36237@shale.csir.co.za> <19980302213522.52802@welearn.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sue Blake wrote: > > sections so you only have to print the pages you want, and should be > > converted to PDF (which can be done with GhostScript - not sure if > > it works). > > With ghostscript? That's the first I've heard of it. There's a supplied ps2pdf script which invokes it with -sDEVICE=pdfwrite. Yes, it works, quite nice if you have to read manpages on a Windows machine. Making a .pdf of the handbook etc. would probably be very helpful for Windows users, using the current structure it's not very easy to download the whole lot to read off-line. Or a zip of all the html files (preferably with the extension .htm, yes it's ugly but at least it'll work better in Win3 :-) Word (or RTF) format is probably more useful in the long term but the converter's already there for PDF. And, bizarrely enough, some people don't use the internet although Word format would probably be even more useful... Stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message