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Date:      Mon, 02 Mar 1998 12:14:52 +0000
From:      stuart henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: newbies mailing list
Message-ID:  <34FAA2BC.44C52F83@internationalschool.co.uk>
References:  <19980302172511.58160@welearn.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980301224633.27288A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> <19980302182544.45884@welearn.com.au> <19980302103201.36237@shale.csir.co.za> <19980302213522.52802@welearn.com.au>

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Sue Blake wrote:
> > sections so you only have to print the pages you want, and should be
> > converted to PDF (which can be done with GhostScript - not sure if
> > it works).
> 
> With ghostscript? That's the first I've heard of it.

There's a supplied ps2pdf script which invokes it with
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite. Yes, it works, quite nice if you have to read
manpages on a Windows machine.

Making a .pdf of the handbook etc. would probably be very helpful for
Windows users, using the current structure it's not very easy to
download the whole lot to read off-line. Or a zip of all the html files
(preferably with the extension .htm, yes it's ugly but at least it'll
work better in Win3 :-)  Word (or RTF) format is probably more useful in
the long term but the converter's already there for PDF.

And, bizarrely enough, some people don't use the internet <grin>
although Word format would probably be even more useful...

Stuart

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