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new PDF version of spec: msg#00003

Subject: new PDF version of spec
I haven't had time to roll in the newest minor revisions (that should happen next week), but I still have an interesting and useful development to report on the spec front...

While working on an unrelated project today where I was looking for PDF export tools for MS Word/MacOS with bookmarking support, I ran across an OpenOffice.org addon called extendedPDF by JDiSoftware. It's free and absolutely wonderful (and personally removes the last barrier for OOo becoming my preferred word processing environment). I converted the 1.1 specification over using extendedPDF, and it dropped the file size by about half and added embedded two-level bookmarking (matching the TOC) as well as embedded hyperlinks. The download off the OpenAL documentation page is this new version.

If you do any word processing using OOo (or want to), extendedPDF is recommended. It's already improved the usability of our spec by a huge amount.

Enjoy,

Garin


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