scott hutinger wrote:
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One question I haven't asked about pdf output. What is the default output in terms of fonts/styles etc for docs? Does IBM have a standard they use, or is it related to something else? I'm certain that some type of output specs exist that have been found to create good output. I haven't looked around for this information, as I think it would take a while to find good information on this. I would guess that we might need to find font(s) that everyone can build the docs with.
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What do the users want? Do folks want to download the DITAs and build PDFs themselves? Or download the built PDFs?
I'm going to hazard a guess that a few might want to download and build themselves and most will want to download the already built PDF, but I could be wrong. We need feedback from the community.
DERBY-79 (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-79) might be a good starting point for tracking requirements as they get nailed down. It doesn't specify fonts/styles ... at least not yet!
I'm not quite sure how the best way to handle this is. Should we post a "[doc] What do you want the PDF format for manuals to be?" to derby-dev? or to derby-user? then report results back to derby-dev? or record results in DERBY-79?
I'm not trying to overly complicate it. I'm just wondering what the best way is to hear from the most users in the community.
-jean
