2567 A4 pages in my PDF viewer. Quite neat.
Honest question: why PDF? From within Vim one uses :help and the internal hyperlinks. What do people here think the value added of the PDF is? I won't be printing it!
Honest question: why PDF? From within Vim one uses :help and the internal hyperlinks. What do people here think the value added of the PDF is? I won't be printing it!
I wanted to ask the exact question. Nobody sits down and read it from the beginning, and without links, there is no point of a PDF.
> The files are fully cross referenced using interal hyperlinks
What format supports interpage linking, can be displayed both electronically and is print quality, and can be read on virtually every platform?
The only print quality formats are postscript or PDF and from that only PDFs can be viewed electronically as well being print ready.
So, there does not exist a solution that is not PDF in this case, especially if other attributes are desired such as the readers not requiring a costly license to use.
I am not incredibly happy with that being the case, but there are open source readers and exporters for (most) PDFs nowadays so it is more or less a non-issue.
Makes sense to me. I enjoy and find useful reading technical documentation while not sitting at a computer. Sometimes, it almost seems most productive when I read a few pages, drift off into a 10 minute nap, and then resume. Things then seem to stick better in my long term memory. (Meaning, when I'm in pure "assimilation" mode as opposed to actively working with/on/using the topic, which is also a great aid to remembering.)