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From: "Daniel Dudley" <dudley@online.no>
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Subject: Re: Does anyone have GNAT documentation in pdf-format?
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"David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote in message
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Dudley" <dudley@online.no>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
> To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 3:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Does anyone have GNAT documentation in pdf-format?
> <snip>
> > I think not, I have the full version of Acrobat and that
> > should suffice. For the same reason, I shouldn't need to
> > install GhostScript. No, there appears to be something
> > wrong with the quality of the original ps-files but, on the
> > off chance that someone has corrected them, I thought I'd
> > enguire the newsgroup.
> You're quite correct, as I pointed out in my earlier message,
> some pages are not correctly rendered as pdf.  Personally,
> I prefer the html documentation for its navigability.
>
> I've never tried to print the User's Guide, as it's not the sort
> of thing I settle down in my Lazy Boy to read ;)

And that's where we differ; I simply wouldn't be comfortable
reading pages upon pages of text online. I've too much
respect for my eyesight to do that. Nope, give me the good
ol' armchair, a good reading lamp and a glass of 18 year
old malt whiskey anytime. ;-)

Daniel