Ubuntu Desktop Starter Guide

[Frankie Robertson]

On 06/06/06, Lee Tambiah <l_tambiah at linuxmail.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 19:37 +0800, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
> > > You just have to fill out a form to enter your details.  You don't need
> > > to enter your Credit card details.
> > >
> > > I've downloaded all of them :)
> >
> > Okay... I have managed to download the "Ubuntu Desktop Stater Guide"....
> > but Evince fails to display it ! It can read the contents table in the
> > left pane, but fails to display anything useful/readable in the main
> > view. I tried with every other PDF viewer I could think of: xpdf, gpdf,
> > kpdf, but all fail.
> > My last attempt was with Acrobat Reader, which thank god manages to
> > display it properly.
> >
> > A Guide on Dapper that can't be read on Dapper... a book about
> > open-source, that can't be read on anything but a proprietary pdf
> > reader.... hmmmm... :-(
>
> This is a BIG concern, I am going to try this myself to confirm it,
> but we can't allow a document to only be opened in a proprietry solution
> it breaks the FLOSS philosophy. We should be free to view any document, in
> any program. I refuse to put adobe on my machine...
>
> Regards
>
> L. Tambiah
>
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Should the book not just be written in one format (like LaTeX) and
then compiled to a number of others (like docbook xml, rtf, adobe pdf,
html, microsoft doc and chm) much like Dive Into Python. Then it
doesn't particularly matter if one format doesn't work as you can
always fall back on another.

If LaTeX is overly complex for the job then a series of simlar but
simpler tools exist such as http://deplate.sourceforge.net/.

Just my 1.07372p,
Frankie