On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 12:39, David Jencks wrote:

> On 2002.12.23 15:29:45 -0500 Rick Fincher wrote:
> > As for making a PDF version of the FAQ, I'm all for it. Do you know
> > where I
> > can find a free editor that writes PDF?
>
> There are probably easier-to-use solutions, but you could look at the
> firebird manual cvs module which goes docbook xml >> xsl >> FOP >> pdf, and
> also generates html.
>
> I thought someone wrote that OpenOffice can generate pdf but I sure can't
> figure out how...

I do it all the time. When you go to print in OpenOffice, instead your
printer select PDF converter. There shouldn't be anything special to do.

That option was there for me out of the box, and I am using RH 8.0.

Viewing it is another story. I do not like XPDF to much, mostly because
you can't walk the contents of the PDF using a tree like in Acrobat.

Now installing Acrobat 4.x is easy and will integrate into *nix
browsers. I am not sure if plugger is needed or not.

My two cents are PDF are fine, no preference to that or HTML.

I would ask however that there also be a plain text version. If you are
installing JayBird on a server and want to reference something it's a
pain to parse the HTML with your eyes. PDF is nearly impossible to read.

To me the FAQ should be online in HTML, or downloadable in PDF format.

Distributed can be either PDF,HTML, both, but there should be a plain
text version included in the distro.

Sorry to be a pain about that, its just a personal preference.

--
Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Support Group
Obsidian-Studios Inc.
439 Amber Way
Petaluma, Ca. 94952
Phone 707.766.9509
Fax 707.766.8989
http://www.obsidian-studios.com