Re: Do you still ship PDFs with your software?

Subject: Re: Do you still ship PDFs with your software?
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 17:45:25 -0800

My default is to distribute my docs as both web help and PDF. Easy
single-file offline access is a big plus.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Lois Patterson
<loisrpatterson -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> This may vary to a great extent depending whether you work on web-based
> software or desktop applications, but I thought I would seek qualitative
> feedback on this point.
>
> In principle, good online documentation can provide the same information as
> a PDF. But the "unity" of a PDF still seems very appealing to me.
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