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Date:      Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:41:32 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>
To:        Timothy J Luoma <public+FreeBSD@fdt.net>, Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Several documentation questioons (all short)
Message-ID:  <19990101174132.A23530@panke.de.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9812281438200.25708-100000@yoda.fdt.net>; from Timothy J Luoma on Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:44:52PM -0500
References:  <19981228184247.E8797@panke.de.freebsd.org> <Pine.LNX.4.05.9812281438200.25708-100000@yoda.fdt.net>

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On 1998-12-28 14:44:52 -0500, Timothy J Luoma wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> 
> > On 1998-12-25 01:45:47 -0500, Timothy J Luoma wrote:
> > > 1) Is there a reason why there can't be gzipped versions of the handbook  
> > > offered in addition to the non-gzipped ones?
> > 
> > No - except lack of time of the FreeBSD developers.
> 
> It that something that a brainless newbie (ie me) could help with?

No. 


> Unfortunately the PS version doesn't look right for me under NeXTStep (the
> pages all go off the far right margin) and I wanted a printable/formatted
> version, so I needed the PDF one (which looked fine except for a few
> places).

The PDF version was generated from the PS version, so there
are both more ore less equal.

> Another possilby dumb q: I have the 2.2.7 CDs, is there a way for me to
> generate the PDF handbook off those? (I don't have a working FreeBSD
> system yet, but I can mount the CDs under NeXTstep and if I can make the
> handbook.PDF file off whatever documentation is there, I would use that.

Use the Adobe distiller

$ distill handbook.ps

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