| From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Ready to release? |
| Date: | 2000-05-08 15:32:59 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.4.21.0005081231140.87721-100000@thelab.hub.org |
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On Mon, 8 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Do you want PDF? I can do it, or should we send out postscript?
> >
> > Sure we should send out postscript. I *know* what the Postscript looks
> > like; I haven't worked with the PDF to know that it is 100% good.
> > Also, PDF requires a reader which afaik is not available on all of our
> > supported platforms; Postscript is supported natively by some
> > printers.
> >
> > Shall we revisit this for 7.1, well before release time?
>
> No, if you are happy with Postscript, let's stay with it. I only
> recommended PDF because we can embed the fonts right in the file, but
> maybe that isn't important.
Just a thought, but putting PDF versions online might be much much more
friendly to those downloading ... the only one that *truly* needs to be in
the distribution is the html stuff, the rest should be made available
through the WWW, for those that want ... not everyone has a postscript
printer, so downloading postscript files tend to sound like more work then
should be required ... *shrug*
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org
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