[QGIS-Developer] Broken links to PDF manuals

[Havard Tveite]

I am fond of PDFs.
In some situations, I find them more convenient to read, and I
often use the PDFs for text search on the complete "document".
So, -1 for removing the PDFs.

Håvard

On 10.05.2019 10:11, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On 10/05/19 08:59, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> 
>> Are these actually used?
>> Because when busy testing new sphinx/templates/Make/Build of docs I was
>> thinking about getting rid of pdf. But instead go for the 'zipped' docs
>> route, which can be viewed in QGIS itself.
>> (though if pdf build 'just keep working' and are needed, we can keep on
>> building them)
> 
> I have seen often pdf being printed - apparently people like to read on
> paper. On the other hand, I believe we should discourage this, bot for
> environmental and for practical purposes (a printed manual becomes
> obsolete soon, and people keep on reading old stuff instead of upgrading
> to the new version).
> So I'd be a mild +1 for removing the pdfs.
> Cheers.
>