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Re: CVS docs PDF patch
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 22:36, Bart Veer wrote:
> ;; Set the paper parameters as per other eCos documentation
> (define %page-width% 7.5in)
> (define %page-height% 10.2in)
> (define %left-margin% 0.75in)
> (define %right-margin% 0.75in)
>
> Those dimensions date from quite some time ago. IIRC they corresponded
> to conventions within the Cygnus documentation department at the time,
> and those manuals were fairly small. Offhand I cannot think of a good
> reason for sticking to those conventions, so we could switch to a
> larger page size, e.g. A4 or US letter. That would add somewhere
> between 0.75in and 1in to the width, possibly enough to avoid hbox
> problems. It might still be desirable to adjust the verbatim font
> size, but perhaps by a lesser amount.
>
Pdfjadetex indeed produces the PDF of requested size (7.46x10.16inch) which
does not fit anywhere, except onto a custom size printed book. I was meaning
to point that out in future.
Besides:
since the PDF on Windows doesn't seem to be able of producing high quality
printable output (depends on the printer driver, I.E. up to now I haven't
been able to print a 100 page PDF datasheet complete to our Panasonic
printer, I had to use Linux to do that), I suggest that we define 3 possible
targets with 3 separate stylesheets, that is HTML (as it is), PDF (generated
for viewing in a reader) and postscript (generated for actual printing).
However, the download from my eCos docs web page doubled ever since the PDF-s
are there.
Regards
Iztok