Bug 137243
| Summary: | Print too small in rhel-ig-s390(EN)-Print-RHI (2004-09-24T13:10) | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Jim Sibley <jlsibley> |
| Component: | rhel-ig-s390 | Assignee: | John Ha <jha> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | adstrong |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Documentation |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | s390 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-10-28 15:22:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Reassigning to stylesheets technical lead. Unfortunately, due to page count restrictions and stringent deliverable requirements, we cannot fulfill your request for this release. However, we will introduce this issue in upcoming product documentation planning meetings. Thank you very much for your request. We appreciate the feedback and will try to incorporate it in future releases. You could get it down to one page if you use small enough print, but this seems to be a bit absurd. The book is virtually useless when you print it and try to read it with the font size you are using. I don't see where the number of pages should be a restriction! I don't see where the page count should be a restriction. You could get it down to one page if you used a font small enough, but it would be pretty useless. As it stands now, the font size is so small that it is difficult to read when you print the PDF. There's a reason that books use a few standard font sizes - so people can read them, not count the pages! I understand your argument, and I apologize for any inconvenience. Our PDFs are built to conform to stringent publishing dimensions and page counts; and our documentation toolchain conforms to those size requirements, whether the PDF is for digital distribution or print fulfillment. There are ways to make the print output of the PDF file scale to larger paper sizes and, thus, yield larger and more readable output. For example, you can use the Adobe Acrobat Reader print dialog to check the "Expand small pages to paper size" checkbox, which scales and prints the PDF output to conform to your paper size. If you are using a Linux distribution to print the PDF file, you can use the following command to convert the pdf to a PostScript file that expands the PDF dimensions to fit your print paper size: pdftops -paper letter -expand rhel-ig-x8664-en.pdf Then you can print the resulting Postscript document using lpr: lpr rhel-ig-x8664-en.ps Thanks again for your feedback. We will certainly add PDF size and print issues to our agendas for next release. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 Description of problem: Print is too small to read easily in the Redhat Installation Gide for the IBM@S390 and IBM eServer zSeries Architecture. It should be a few points larger to be more readable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Read Manual 2. 3. Actual Results: Type is abnormally small. Expected Results: Type font should be a few points larger (looks like 8 point, should be 10 or 12 point?) Additional info: