Re: New XPL Instruction Manual at XyWWWeb

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Russ Urquhart  on Fri, 27
Jan 2006 15:28:25 -0600


> If anyone is interested, I have Acrobat Pro and i can make this PDF
> so that if you use the 7.0 Reader, anyone can put their notes/
> comments in the document and send those to Robert or whoever.
>
> On the upkeep end, then, you can easily access those notes. (There is
> an option to print out the pages that are marked, with the comments
> offset from the actual page. I've used this to speed up the updating
> process.)
>
> If you want me to convert and upload the pdf, just let me know!

I have Acrobat Pro 7.0.5 too, for what its worth. I did the initial PDF with
it, then started optimizing, down from an initial size of 1.6 Mb to current
470Kb. It has just the fonts that it needs, in just the embedded proportions
that it needs, to work. Moreover, there are very few, if any, errors in the
text; the one Harry caught was something that I had fixed once already, but
then I reverted to an earlier version, etc etc -- there were about five such
instances in the text, and they are presently fine. Yes, there are some
omissions in the tables, but they are not particularly important; I'd need to
sit down with NBWin for a long time to fill every hole.

More important than adding bells and whistles to the PDF is sitting down and
grappling with the meat of XPL. Nobody needs to communicate with anybody to do
that. Please don't comment to me about the text; I'm simply passing it on.

I'm travelling and will be mostly out of touch for about two weeks.

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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