On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Thomas Dodd wrote:
>
>
> Tom Diehl wrote:
> >>On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 05:46:13PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Does anyone know the magic incantation to make xpdf display the redhat
> >>>manuals in a typesize that is readable? when I open up the manuals
> >>>the type size is so small I cannot read them. If I set the magnification
> >>>to 4 or 5 to make the type big enough to see the letters are all choppy
> >>>that it is hard to read. I started to read teh xpdf docs but I am not
> >>>sure what to set or even if that is the correct path. Is there a better
> >>>way to do this??
> >
> > I suspect you may be correct but I am not sure where to look or what to
> > change. Whatever font it is displaying in it also prints in and it is
> > way too small for my old fart eyes. :) The font I am running the display
> > in I have no problem reading. I just wish I understood the relationship
> > between the two, if any.
> >
>
> Which particular manual? I don't have any PDF manuals from RHL-8.0.
> Is this from the docs CD?
All of them. They are on both the website and the docs iso in pdf form.
> I checked xpdf using the Lilo docs and ps2pdf. The PostScript in
> ghostview and the PDF in acroread and xpdf all looked the same.
> So xpdf sems to be OK.
Hummm, I will see what I get here. So far on 8.0 the only thing I have
tried on xpdf is the Redhat manuals. I also need to look at acrobat
but I just have not had the time. :-(
> Do you have the manual in PostScript or some other format
> HTML or SGML? That migh help determine the font and size
> used.
I wish!! It appears that Red Hat is only releasing them in pdf or
html (bleech!!).
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.............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to
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with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976
We are still waiting ....
