Rotghroth Rhapsody Vent Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 I have downloaded BoA editor 1.0.1 and noticed that the .doc files are v1.1 but pdf only v10. Are the pdf docs up to date?? I don't have word and checking it in texedit will be a crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk spyderbytes Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 I'm reasonably certain the version number just wasn't changed on the PDF (though the PDF itself was). At any rate, I use the PDF exclusively and gripe at Jeff if it doesn't match up to reality. -spyderbytes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasoned Roamer ThirdParty Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 The PDF's are not up to date. See, for example, the mis-description of "give_ter_script_message" in the PDF but not in the DOC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk spyderbytes Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 Hmm... I can't tell you what it was, now, but I specifically remember seeing something that changed in the PDF from what was provided with the 1.0 editor. I believe it was a call that was removed, now that I think about it. Based on that, I assumed the PDF was up to date except for version number. Regardless, I have no convenient way to use Word DOCs (and hate them anyway), so I'll be sticking to the PDF and continue pointing out when it's wrong. -spyderbytes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Vent Posted April 18, 2004 Author Share Posted April 18, 2004 spyderbytes I sign the flame petition requiring the up to date pdf. Could you take the job to take the petition to the competent authorities? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Spidweb Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 The .pdf will be updated far less often than the .doc because making .pdf files is a pain in the ass. You can't edit them like you can edit text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk spyderbytes Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 Then how about at least having Word convert to an .html from the .doc when you modify it? (says he who really, really hates Word) Or heck, just dump the text into a BBEdit file. Anything but Word format. Hmm... guess I DO have both AppleWorks and Mariner Write, looking in my Applications folder, that can read a .doc (in addition to Word itself, for that matter--though I refuse to even launch it if I can help it). Just being my usual "grumpy old man" self, I guess... Still, I really prefer PDFs for documentation. Isn't it just a matter of "printing" it (to a file) to make the PDF? Docs don't have to be "pretty"... EDIT: You can grab a "down'n'dirty" conversion of the 1.1 docs to PDF from my iDisk . No bookmarks, and some of the pictures don't line up all pretty-like. If someone wants to spend the time to do a "proper" conversion, I'll let you upload them to my iDisk (which is just a trial account I set up expressly for this purpose, anyway ). This is just for folks like me who are just searching the docs 99.9% of the time, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Vent Posted April 19, 2004 Author Share Posted April 19, 2004 Acrobat distiller (or another name like that) doesn't allow edit text in the pdf? The export to html is an idea, I'm not sure it will look good on any computers. Perhaps export in rtf will be ok to be read with textedit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted April 19, 2004 Share Posted April 19, 2004 As I understand it, PDFs are a publication-only format; once a PDF's been finished, it can't easily be changed. I like RTFs, but most people don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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