Nick, hello. On 2014 Aug 17, at 11:02, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote:
> I used to generate PDF files of the FAQ. I stopped this a few years > ago, when I decided that the use of PDF files was not to be encouraged > in any way, shape or form. Adobe writes crap code and does what they > can to push it onto as many computers as they can. It has become a > popular place to find zero-day exploits permitting undetected entry into > corporate computer systems. And looking at how people use PDF files, it > just isn't needed. Well yes, but those are problems with Adobe's dreadful reader, not with the (standardised) format itself. It's for this reason that no-one should use Adobe's reader if they can possibly help it. But there are other PDF implementations. > You also need to look at the license of the FAQ and website material -- > most of it is released just under standard copyright, so any > redistribution requires the permission of the copyright holder. But I'm not planning to distribute anything. The temporary URL I posted was to demo the results of the suggestion I was making. To be clear, I'm proposing that the XHTML version of the FAQ text would potentially be usable as the master version, and used to generate HTML and any other formats that were desirable (such as a PDF, or a text version via *roff). All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
