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Re: ns documentation updated 1 April



On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Christian J�nsson wrote:

> How about having a pdf version of the documentation available (1)
> also, or (2) insetead? 

I just render the postscript to pdf myself using Acrobat distiller (I
understand the unix command-line distiller is very cheap - cost us
thity quid for a single machine license for 3.01).

Since pdf is rapidly developing Microsoft Word-like version
incompatibility and dangerous-feature bloat (Acrobat 4.0! With
embedded javascript forms functionality!) supplying pdf as a default
would be a bad idea.  Thank goodness you're not using Knuth's awful
TeX fonts, which were designed for really bleedy printers and are
unreadable onscreen in Acrobat...

(I don't think you could automate pdf index generation, though; the
 unofficial (not linked to from ns pages) html version at:
 http://www.isi.edu/~salehi/ns_doc/

 is probably more useful, and would be good as an automated cron
 job/tarfile by ftp. It's currently showing a March 26, 1999 version; 
 news to me, since
 http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns-documentation.html
 is still claiming March 3 is latest...)

OTOH, 
681941 Apr 13 18:25 nsDoc1April.pdf
967597 Apr 13 18:22 nsDoc1April.ps
the pdf is smaller for general use/searching/printing, but the gzipped
ps is smaller still for transport.

If the pdf was available by ftp and we mirrored it, I could easily
distill it as a cron job...

> If someone can provide me with a tar file of the relevant doc
> subdir, I'd be happy to provide a pdf of it... 

would be useful by ftp too.

> > http://www-mash.cs.berkeley.edu/ns/ns-documentation.html
> > 
> > despite the date on that page, the documentation was updated April 1st
> > - and K&K have just broken the 200 page barrier. 

make that K&K et al.

cheers,

L.

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