Manuals

[Gerald Pfeifer]

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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