On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said: > > > 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. > > Well, let's keep this limited to FPC context, and the foreseeable future. > And include the textmode IDE. Your ship sinks on the last sentence. I never will do that :-) > > > I use PDF as the help system for my daytime job apps. Works fine. > > How is the speed? Does it match say a D7 help ? I honestly don't know. Never tested. The primary reason for going to PDF was that we can create the docs in LaTeX, which is a text format where layout can be largely ignored. Having 6 people working together on a Word document is not doable, both from versioning and layouting point of view. In LaTeX it works. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
