Re: CVS docs PDF patch

[Iztok Zupet <iztok dot zupet at vsr dot si>]

On Tuesday 29 October 2002 22:36, Bart Veer wrote:
>   ;; Set the paper parameters as per other eCos documentation
>   (define %page-width%   7.5in)
>   (define %page-height%  10.2in)
>   (define %left-margin%  0.75in)
>   (define %right-margin% 0.75in)
>
> Those dimensions date from quite some time ago. IIRC they corresponded
> to conventions within the Cygnus documentation department at the time,
> and those manuals were fairly small. Offhand I cannot think of a good
> reason for sticking to those conventions, so we could switch to a
> larger page size, e.g. A4 or US letter. That would add somewhere
> between 0.75in and 1in to the width, possibly enough to avoid hbox
> problems. It might still be desirable to adjust the verbatim font
> size, but perhaps by a lesser amount.
>

Pdfjadetex indeed produces the PDF of requested size (7.46x10.16inch) which 
does not fit anywhere, except onto a custom size printed book. I was meaning 
to point that out in future. 

Besides:
 since the PDF on Windows doesn't seem to be able of producing high quality 
printable output (depends on the printer driver, I.E. up to now I haven't 
been able to print a 100 page PDF datasheet complete to our Panasonic 
printer, I had to use Linux to do that), I suggest that we define 3 possible 
targets with 3 separate stylesheets, that is HTML (as it is), PDF (generated 
for viewing in a reader) and postscript (generated for actual printing).

However, the download from my eCos docs web page doubled ever since the PDF-s 
are there.

Regards
Iztok