Re: [zfs-discuss] Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-09-02 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> ZFS Administration Guide (in PDF format) does not > look very professional (at least on > Evince/OS2008.05). Please see attached screenshot. I have cleaned up the original pdf file. Please see: http://tinyurl.com/zfs-pdf The invisible parts (original) are now visible (corrected). It is not

Re: [zfs-discuss] Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-07-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > > Perhaps some considerations should be given to create those > documents with OpenOffice.org or StarOffice/StarSuite. I would encourage Sun to continue using the system which has already been working for so many years so that it can focus on creating

Re: [zfs-discuss] Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-07-21 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> For the record, the source of the ZFS Admin Guide is > created with > a SGML editor that is not Framemaker. I agree that > the evince PDF > display problems are with the font changes only. > > Cindy Perhaps some considerations should be given to create those documents with OpenOffice.org or St

Re: [zfs-discuss] Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-07-21 Thread Richard Elling
Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: >> Welcome to font hell :-(. For many years, Sun >> documentation was written >> in the Palatino font, which is (or was?) not freely >> available. I believe >> > > Umm No. PDF supports font embedding. This is how so many PDFs are out there > (company brochures, fli

Re: [zfs-discuss] Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-07-21 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
For the record, the source of the ZFS Admin Guide is created with a SGML editor that is not Framemaker. I agree that the evince PDF display problems are with the font changes only. Cindy Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: >>Welcome to font hell :-(. For many years, Sun >>documentation was written >>in the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-07-21 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
> Welcome to font hell :-(. For many years, Sun > documentation was written > in the Palatino font, which is (or was?) not freely > available. I believe Umm No. PDF supports font embedding. This is how so many PDFs are out there (company brochures, fliers etc) with commercial fonts and they loo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-07-20 Thread Richard Elling
Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote: > Evince likes to fuzz a number of PDFs. I too can't seem to nail the problems, > but it seems that a number of PDFs from SUN have this problem (very wrong > character spacing), and they all have been generated using FrameMaker. PDFs > generated using TeX/LaTeX are *usu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-07-20 Thread Akhilesh Mritunjai
Evince likes to fuzz a number of PDFs. I too can't seem to nail the problems, but it seems that a number of PDFs from SUN have this problem (very wrong character spacing), and they all have been generated using FrameMaker. PDFs generated using TeX/LaTeX are *usually* ok. This message posted

Re: [zfs-discuss] Formatting Problem of ZFS Adm Guide (pdf)

2008-07-20 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> ZFS Administration Guide (in PDF format) does not > look very professional (at least on > Evince/OS2008.05). Please see attached screenshot. Looks like this is a display problem. It seems that certain fonts (monospace fonts) were not displayed by the version of Evince included in OS 2008.05.