Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:41:32 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> To: Timothy J Luoma <public+FreeBSD@fdt.net>, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Several documentation questioons (all short) Message-ID: <19990101174132.A23530@panke.de.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9812281438200.25708-100000@yoda.fdt.net>; from Timothy J Luoma on Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:44:52PM -0500 References: <19981228184247.E8797@panke.de.freebsd.org> <Pine.LNX.4.05.9812281438200.25708-100000@yoda.fdt.net>
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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 <wosch@freebsd.org> http://freebsd.org/~w/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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