Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide

[Jan de Groot <jan jgc homeip net>]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 10:32 +0100, Emmanuel Pacaud wrote:
> I don't think PDF is well suited for on screen reading. Font rendering
> and glyph spacing make document harder to read than when it's in html.
> 
> Other points against PDF is that HTML rendering is faster, and page
> layout of PDF files leaves a lot of unused space (page borders, space
> between pages) with no gain regarding readability.
> 
>         Emmanuel.

I think it's nice to provide PDF next to HTML documentation. Some people
actually print documentation to have a reference that isn't located on
their screen, for those people PDF is ideal to HTML.