On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: > > > In our previous episode, Francisco Reyes said: > > > > Based on your schedule when do you think you may get the opendocument > > > > format or the Excel 5 working under Linux/FreeBSD? > > > > > > > > Also, any plans to have the help in anything other than chm? > > > > I found some viewers/converters, so I think I will be able to open it > > > > or > > > > convert it, but would be nice if there was something other than chm. If > > > > I > > > > get to conver it, should I put it somewhere for you? Haven't tried yet, > > > > but > > > > I think I will be able to convert to PDF. > > > > > > The document generator already generates PDFs? The problem with PDFS is > > > that > > > while these are great as reference, they are (IMHO) in the current setting > > > not usable as help system. > > > > Why not ? > > Same as a browser, but maybe worse: > How do you instrument a PDF reader platform independantly? And (specially > with recent Adobe readers): speed. That's an implementation detail, but doesn't make PDFs a priori unsuitable as help format. I use PDF as the help system for my daytime job apps. Works fine. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
