[haiku] Re: BePDF documentation
- From: Nicholas Blachford <nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:17:34 +0000
Humdinger wrote:
>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)?
a) For output it's fine, for source no.
a1) No.
a2) No (see below).
b) Yes.
c) No.
I'd keep the document *source* in XHTML.
XHTML being XML based is both human and machine readable. It can also
be edited in anything - you don't need a special editor for it. XHTML
is also based on strict rules, this makes it easier to check for
format errors and to convert to other formats.
At work we use a dedicated app for documentation and it produces XML.
We then take that and convert it into html and pdf.
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Why not use Open Office?
Well for a start it's not usable on Haiku, making it of rather limited
use...
If you plan on producing a big PDF I expect you'll run into a lot of
problems with a word processor. They are not designed for big
documents and are generally not up to the job - MS Word certainly isn't.
I've never been a big fan of OO, I don't know about more recent
versions but it used to be slow and had an absolutely colossal memory
footprint, I can't even begin to comprehend why a word processor
would require 200MB of RAM.
I can remember back to when it used to take 5 minutes just to start -
yes, it really was that slow.
As for Gobe, If you try to edit a big doc you'll soon find the problem
that it crashes with large docs (Gobe themselves confirmed this to me
when I reported it - quite some time ago...).
Anyway just my er 0.2 cents (the pound isn't doing so well these days).
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BTW if you haven't see it:
http://www.osnews.com/story/20651/BeGeistert_019_Alphaville
There's a few more names on the pics now, if you want to know who's
doing Haiku you'll see several of them on the very last picture on
page 6.
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Nicholas Blachford
nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.blachford.info
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