[tex-live] Non-PDF documentation

[David Kastrup]

Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> writes:

> On 1 February 2010 Frank Küster wrote:
>
>  > Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Hi Philipp,
>  > >
>  > > Philipp Stephani a écrit :
>  > >> are there any plans to convert non-PDF manuals to PDF? I think
>  > >> PS and DVI manuals are inconvenient for many because end users
>  > >> generally have no DVI or PostScript viewer installed. For
>  > >> example, on Mac OS X, PDFs can be viewed natively, whereas DVIs
>  > >> and PSs have to be converted on the fly and look much worse.
>  > >
>  > > I agree with you. Actually there are such plans. At least Robin
>  > > an I have been converting dvi/ps documentation to pdf (or
>  > > generating pdf documentation when no compiled doc was available
>  > > at all) for some time.
>  > 
>  > What a pity.  Viewing DVI in xdvi is so much faster and in
>  > particular so much more comfortable than PDF in xpdf(-derivatives)
>  > or acroread.
>
> This was discussed in depth already.  DVI is not an option at all
> because DVI files don't incorporate all the needed resources (fonts,
> graphics,...).

TeXlive has those resources.  TeXlive is not CTAN or the web.

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David Kastrup