[Doc-SIG] Issues with 2.1 doc PDF files

Dan Schmidt dfan@harmonixmusic.com
25 Apr 2001 17:08:29 -0400


"Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@acm.org> writes:

| Dinu Gherman writes:
|
|  > definitely distract people from reading the files online
|  > and simply lead to a bad overall impression about their
|  > generation process, if not even their content.
| 
|   Do people really use the PDF onscreen?  I've always imagined
| Windows users use them to print from, since PostScript printers are
| less common under Windows than under Linux & Unix.  I'd be curious
| as to whether onscreen display or printing is widespread for the PDF
| version -- for onscreen viewing I'd expect a very different layout.

I don't view the Python docs with PDF, but I read many other PDF files
'onscreen' rather than printing them out.

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