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Originally posted by Nate Smith
While it wasn't really a requirement based on the information in the BoM, I do understand why FIRST chooses the PDF format for distributing the manual. The compression is awesome, and it allows them to ensure that every person who opens the file will be seeing the same thing. With any other program, even Word or Excel, if the fonts, or program settings, or just about anything, are not exactly the same, things can be thrown way off...
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but the manual, and updates, and most everything else is pretty much just text... with that, i don't really see the benefit to using pdf. plaintext will be much smaller, i guarantee, and its completely universal. sure, for the diagrams and all, pdf is fine, but where its not needed, can't they just go with text to make it easier for us? or if you insist on fancy formatting or whatever, i'm sure it wouldn't be that much more difficult to html-ize it. how crucial is it that everyone read it in the same font?
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