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Re: Manuals
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at stanford dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Manuals
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 18:03:18 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: Bob Kruit <bob at ease dot nl>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Maybe we should add a 'make pdf' target to the Makefiles.
Yup.
> As for putting pre-generated PDFs on the website, I think the major
> issue would be file size. gcc.pdf as rendered by pdftex is 2.5MB; as
> rendered by plain TeX and then dvipdf, 2.6MB. That's the biggest
> manual, of course. I don't know what the website disk space situation
> is like.
We don't have a (serious) disk space problem, but we do have a significant
bandwidth problem.
Gerald
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