Re: complaint

["Eugene O'Connor" <eugene oconnor sun com>]

The GUP make the HIG available in the following ways:

* Online HTML (chunked using the GDP customization stylesheets)
* Downloadable tarred and zipped HTML (presumably also chunked)
* PDF

It would be good to have the User Guide available from the web in each of these formats. Other formats that we should consider:

* Downloadable tarred and zipped HTML (non-chunked, to meet John Boyer's requirement)
* PostScript - is this really necessary if the PDF is available?

However, I don't know how feasible it is to create a fresh PDF of the User Guide every time there is an update. Eric, does it involve much effort to create the PDF from the XML?

Eugene

Pat Costello wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> The comments from both John Boyer and Ray Koopman show that there is a need for
> us to make the GNOME User Guide more generally available. How could we do this?
> Perhaps we could have a location on the GNOME website where we make the latest
> GNOME User Guide available in a variety of formats, as well as shipping with the
> deskop for viewing in Yelp. We could then put the URL into the Where to Find
> More Information sections in the Introduction and Overview type documents.
> 
> This would need a bit of updating work and maintaining to make sure that the
> latest versions are available from the GNOME website location. There seems to be
> a demand, so we would be providing a needed piece of user support.
> 
> Any other views or ideas how we can help these users?
> 
> Pat
> 
> > X-X-Sender: director Jumbo
> > To: Pat Costello <Patrick Costello sun com>
> > cc: docs gnome org, <koopman sfu ca>
> > Subject: Re: complaint
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> >
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Delivered-To: gnome-doc-list gnome org
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> > > > To: docs gnome org
> > > > Subject: complaint
> > > > X-BeenThere: gnome-doc-list gnome org
> > > > X-Loop: gnome-doc-list gnome org
> > > > X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.12
> > > > List-Help: <mailto:gnome-doc-list-request gnome org?subject=help>
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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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