Re: complaint

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Pat,
It would be nice for me and other blind users if the Gnome User's Guide 
were available as a single large html file or as an online book. Pdf files 
are likely to be a disaster.
Thanks.
John
 On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Pat Costello wrote:

> I think that printing out Help is a useful feature that many users would 
> appreciate. As we are putting pre-generated html files into the GNOME package to 
> speed up the Yelp display of Help files, then it must be possible to add a Print 
> functionality to Yelp. The Print button could print out the pre-gen html files. 
> Maybe you would like to put this topic into bugzilla? 
> 
> As well as html files of Help, there is a generic pdf file of the GNOME 2.1 User 
> Guide available, which Eric Baudais put in the following location: 
>  
>  gnome-user-docs/gnome2-user-guide/C/user-guide.pdf 
>  
> The Sun team also have a slightly later Solaris-variant version of the pdf file, 
> for the GNOME 2.2 User Guide, we can make that file available to you if you 
> don't mind the infrequent mentions of Solaris. 
> 
> If you don't want to copy over and print out bits of the pdf files then, someone 
> at Red Hat should tell you where the pre-generated html Help files reside in the 
> Red Hat distro and you should be able to print out the pages you need from those 
> files. 
> 
> Pat
>  
> 
> 
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> > This is about the on-line documentation (GNOME User's Guide, Introduction to  
> > GNOME, Nautilus User Manual) that comes with Red Hat Linux 7.2.  How do I  
> > get printed copies of these?  Directions for printing them, with page numbers  
> > (and an index?), should be almost the very first information given!
> > 
> > Also, in Introduction to Gnome / Where to Find More Information / Gnome  
> > Resources on the Internet, clicking on the pointer to GnomeFAQ gives only the  
> > error message `"gnome-help:users-faq" is not a valid location. Please check  
> > the spelling and try again.'
> > 
> > Ray Koopman
> > <koopman sfu ca>
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