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authorBen Harris <bjh21@bjh21.me.uk>2006-12-09 15:02:32 +0000
committerBen Harris <bjh21@bjh21.me.uk>2006-12-09 15:02:32 +0000
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Mention PDF before PostScript everywhere, partly because PDF is the
dominant format for print-oriented documents, but mostly because it's hard to mention pdfmark without having mentioned PDF already. Also mention pdfmark. [originally from svn r6975]
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@@ -1350,28 +1350,10 @@ and no \cw{\\cfg\{info-dir-entry\}} directives.
These output formats (currently PostScript and PDF) generate printable
manuals. As such, they share a number of configuration directives.
-\S{output-ps} \i{PostScript}
-
-This output format generates a printable manual in PostScript format.
-
-There is one configuration option specific to PostScript:
-
-\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{ps-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{ps-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
-
-\dd Sets the \i{output file name} in which to store the PostScript
-file. This directive is implicitly generated if you provide a file
-name parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--ps} (see
-\k{running-options}).
-
-The \i{default settings} for the PostScript output format are:
-
-\c \cfg{ps-filename}{output.ps}
-
\S{output-pdf} \i{PDF}
-This output format generates a printable manual in PDF format. This
-should look exactly identical to the PostScript output (see
-\k{output-ps}), but also uses some PDF interactive features to
+This output format generates a printable manual in PDF format. In
+addition, it uses some PDF interactive features to
provide an outline of all the document's sections and clickable
cross-references between sections.
@@ -1388,6 +1370,26 @@ The \i{default settings} for the PDF output format are:
\c \cfg{pdf-filename}{output.pdf}
+\S{output-ps} \i{PostScript}
+
+This output format generates a printable manual in PostScript format.
+This should look exactly identical to the PDF output (see
+\k{output-ps}), and uses \i\c{pdfmark} to arrange that if converted
+to PDF it will contain the same interactive features.
+
+There is one configuration option specific to PostScript:
+
+\dt \I{\cw{\\cfg\{ps-filename\}}}\cw{\\cfg\{ps-filename\}\{}\e{filename}\cw{\}}
+
+\dd Sets the \i{output file name} in which to store the PostScript
+file. This directive is implicitly generated if you provide a file
+name parameter after the command-line option \i\c{--ps} (see
+\k{running-options}).
+
+The \i{default settings} for the PostScript output format are:
+
+\c \cfg{ps-filename}{output.ps}
+
\S{output-paper-dimensions} Configuring layout and \i{measurements}
All measurements are in PostScript \i{points} (72 points to the inch).