RE: [Exim] PDF Documentation

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: John Horne
CC: exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] PDF Documentation
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, John Horne wrote:

> On 30-Aug-00 at 04:49:55 Chris Snell wrote:
> > I downloaded the Exim documentation in PDF format but found that the text
> > was kind of strangely formatted. Letters were not aligned vertically with
> > each other. I think this is a result of the PostScript -> PDF
> > conversion.
> >
> Can you give us some specific pages? I have just tried looking at the PDF
> files (from the exim site) of 'spec' and 'filter' and they seem fine. I also
> looked at your regenerated ones and they seem the same! :-) I admit that the
> 'oview' file looks a bit odd but that seems to be because different fonts
> are used (from the other files). In that respect yours is easier to read for
> this file. I used a redhat linux 6.1 system with acrobat 4.05.


They all look all right to me using acroread under Solaris 8. I make the
PDF using the ps2pdf command from the Aladdin Ghostscript release. The
overview could have its fonts changed easily enough if that will help.

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