[haiku] BePDF documentation
- From: Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Haiku General ML <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:17:53 +0100
Hello,
since the documentation mailing list isn't that frequented and I'd like the opinion of
more people, I'll post here. Hope that's OK.
BePDF has nice documentation in PDF format. The editable format in CVS is Gobe Productive.
This could become a problem when Gobe stops running once Haiku sheds its last ties to BeOS
and finally breaks compatibility.
Plus, being closed and, as far as we know, abandoned, only a trial version's available
(I'm not sure how limited it is). I tried to install from my CD, BTW, and couldn't unpack it.
Anyway, IMO a change of format is called for.
Michael Pfeiffer, long time maintainer of BePDF, would like to keep the docu in PDF
format. I'm not sure. PDF looks better, esp. when printed out. HTML OTOH is much more
flexible, fits with the rest of Haiku's docu and is better suited for putting online.
So, the question I'd like to put forward is, do we
a) keep the PDF format?
a1) keep the "source" in Gobe format?
a2) convert the "source" to OpenOffice so it's editable for everyone, just not (yet?)
under Haiku?
b) scrap the PDF and go XHTML like the rest of the docu?
c) have a better idea?
The main problem with going HTML is the slooow startup of our default Firefox.
Is NetSurf far along enough to be Haiku's fast docu viewer (maybe even as a further
stripped down version)?
Regards,
Humdinger
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