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Personally, I'd rather have documentation in either PDF, HTML or plain text.
I know I can download tools to convert from info or ps to something usable,
but I do so very infrequently so it is a pain to download the tools and
re-figure out how to use them.

Steve
(The Duck)

"CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Stephane Riviere wrote:
> >
> ... snip ...
> >
> > Docs in AIDE are mainly in PDF format. I've done a lot of ps->pdf
> > or texinfo->pdf translation. Although PDF is not a native windows
> > format, it is usually well accepted.
>
> Not around here.  If the information is representable in texinfo
> format it is easily converted into text, html, ps, pdf, or info
> files, and is probably much more compact than a pdf
> representation.  text and info are easily searched, and html adapts
> especially easily to a variety of page dimensions.
>
> -- 
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