From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200511151443.jAFEhOg28582@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: 8.1 PDF Documentation.
In-Reply-To: <200511151254.50045.peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:43:24 -0500 (EST)
CC: pgsql-www@postgresql.org, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>,
	pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 15. November 2005 06:13 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> > I am still unclear why there is no more reliable SGML toolchain for PDF
> > output after all these years.  Seems things have improved because we now
> > have bookmarks, but still, why is this functionality not more mainstream.
> 
> I don't understand how you get from "ancient Acrobat can't display large PDF 
> file" to "SGML toolchain is unreliable".

Well, historically we have had trouble generating PDF (particuarly
bookmarks), and it took _days_ to generate the output, which certainly
seems strange.

In fact, this is the first verion that has bookmarks, and that is 1/2
the value of a PDF file for me, so I see this release as a great leap
forward for us.  What I do not understand is why it has taken >5 years
for this to happen.

-- 
  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://candle.pha.pa.us
  pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610) 359-1001
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  13 Roberts Road
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073