From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Postgres Printed Manuals |
Date: | 2007-05-14 22:12:55 |
Message-ID: | 20070514221255.GB8916@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2007, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >How much would it be to email the PDF manual to someone like Kinkos and
> >get it printed? Effectively, that might be the cheepest solution because
> >it is print-on-demand.
>
> >>What I would suggest is, rather than hoping somebody has the bankroll for
> >>one LARGE document, somebody might take a close look at a PostgreSQL
> >>Documentation Project to break down those 1600 pages into three or four
> >>"manuals" that would be more reasonable to print one at a time.
>
> Not only is Kinkos (or their competition) in business to do this type of
> work, but you could have printed only the chapters you needed.
Right. Printing the hundreds of pages taken up by the release notes is
almost always a waste of paper, for example. And unless you're a
beginner you're likely not to need the tutorial either.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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