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#13083 PDF of documentation?

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 30 July 2012 14:17 CDT

user66927
Do you offer a pdf version of the Admin Tools document? The web version is very difficult to read... way too wide across the page.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Of course, it's in the download page. Look at the bottom, below the installable ZIP archives.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

user66927
Don't know how I missed that- thanks!

Just a suggestion- the HTML version would be much more readable at 600px wide :)

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
The HTML version is very readable at its current width of maximum 900px. I have tried on my iPhone, iPad, HTC Desire, MacBook Pro 13", Apple LED Cinema Display (27"), HP Pavillion (15.5" WXGA), Samsung external LCD display (19"), EIZO 17" CRT display, white-lable MSI laptop from back in 2005 (15.3" WXGA), Asus EeePC 901 (9") and Asus Aspire One (10"). Phew! That was a big list. In all cases I use factory defaults and 100% zoom level. Obviously, if you set the zoom level to 75% or, worse, 50% you get too wide sentences which are impossible to read. Same goes if you set the monitor's DPI wrong. The way it's set up right now, the text should appear about the same size as most novels on all displays except the mobile devices (it appears about 50% as big). At 600px wide the text is unreadable as the sentences are way too sort :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

user66927
Obviously I disagree- the width is very hard for me to read, especially in such lengthy paragraph format. Newspapers put 3 inch columns for a reason. But I love the extension and will overcome my reading issue!

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Ah, I see your point of view. There are two popular ways to typeset text: three columns to an A4 page or a single column. The former is used in magazines and newspapers (albeit the newspaper is usually A3 format), the latter is used in novels and technical documentation. That's why it's typeset like that. The PDF is also typeset the same way. They actually come from the same DocBook XML source and the same XSLT conversion stylesheets. Well, if the PDF is more convenient for you, no problem :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

πŸ‡¬πŸ‡·Greek: native πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§English: excellent πŸ‡«πŸ‡·French: basic β€’ πŸ• My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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