[Fwd: Re: [mapserver-dev] Draft of downloadable users manual]

[Jeff McKenna]

Sorry I forgot to mention that I checked in the Open Office .odt file I used
to create the pdf, in SVN at /trunk/docs/references/users-manual/.  I
believe MS Word has a downloadable plugin for that Open Document format now.

-jeff



On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca>
wrote:

>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Draft of downloadable users manual
> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:57:46 -0500
> From: Steve Lime <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
> To: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca>
> References: <47FBD9CA.9020306 at dmsolutions.ca>
>
> Jeff: Would it be possible to get a copy of this in a format that would be
> easier to mark up (e.g. Word)? That
> would make it easier to take a red pen to it. I don't think sending
> comments like "on page 10, paragraph 5, ..."
> will be very efficient. I'd rather just open it up and insert comments
> inline. You can do some of that with Acrobat
> but the Reader version is kinda limiting.
>
> Steve
>
>  On 4/8/2008 at 3:47 PM, in message <47FBD9CA.9020306 at dmsolutions.ca>,
> > > > Jeff
> > > >
> > > McKenna <jmckenna at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
>
> > Guys,
> >
> > An initial draft of the users manual can be found at:
> > http://download.osgeo.org/mapserver/docs/mapserver-users-manual.pdf(1MB)
> >
> > Some comments:
> >
> > - has gaping holes
> > - plan is to use SteveL's demo as part of the missing 'application'
> > section
> > - most if not all examples in this doc were manually executed, and in
> > many cases i've updated the associated existing website docs accordingly
> > - many more existing website docs will be ported into the Appendix
> >
> > I hope you guys think it is becoming useful.
> >
> > -jeff
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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