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diff --git a/doc/user/typ_apdf b/doc/user/typ_apdf new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3203384 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/user/typ_apdf @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +@Section + @Title { PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) documents } + @Tag { pdf } +@Begin +@PP +You can get Lout to produce PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) output as +an alternative to PostScript, by adding @Code "-PDF" to the command line +like this: +pdf. @Index { PDF documents } +@ID @Code "lout -PDF simple > simple.pdf" +No other changes are required. +@PP +The PDF output is superior to PostScript in providing links: when viewed +with a PDF viewer, entries in tables of contents and indexes can be +clicked on and this transports the viewer to the part of the document +referenced by the link. (Recent versions of PostScript support this +feature too, but Lout's PostScript doesn't.) However, the PDF output +produced by Lout is inferior at graphics: the advanced features of the +@Code "@Diag" and @Code "@Graph" packages do not produce any output. One +can still format documents that contain them, but the results are disappointing. +@End @Section |