Path: usenet.cise.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!huron.eel.ufl.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.he.net!news.rain.net!news.teleport.com!not-for-mail From: wmiddlet@Adobe.COM (William Middleton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: ANNOUNCE: Perl5.004 PDF Documentation Available Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.misc Date: 2 Jul 1997 19:38:28 GMT Organization: - Lines: 81 Sender: news-merlyn@gadget.cscaper.com Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <5peank$onb$1@nadine.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gadget.cscaper.com X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cise.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:196 comp.lang.perl.misc:30987 The latest PDF manual has been uploaded to PAUSE. It should make it's way around CPAN shortly. CPAN: ~authors/id/BMIDD/perlbook-5.004_01.tar.gz As before, this file is also available at best.com, in both gzipped, and zipped format. The zipped archive is recommended for Windows users. ftp://ftp.best.com/pub/wjm/perlbook-5.004_01.tar.gz ftp://ftp.best.com/pub/wjm/perlbook-5.004_01.zip The README file is appended. Enjoy, ---- Bill wmiddlet@adobe.com PERLBOOK - 5.004_01 Complete PERL Documentation in Adobe Acrobat Format Brought to you courtesy of Bill Middleton and Adobe Systems, Inc. This directory includes the file perlbook.pdf, which contains the entire standard documentation suite for perl5. All of the standard perl modules which include embedded Pod documentation, as well as the complete set of perl pods, along with the various README files, INSTALL files, documentation for external programs, and now even the documentation from the various Win32 external modules. Most of the hyperlinks which are available in the perl html documentation can be accessed through this document. It includes a standard Acrobat bookmark for each pod, which can be expanded to view the headers and main topics for each document within. To view this document, you must have one of the Adobe Acrobat (tm) tools, Acrobat Exchange, or Acrobat Reader. Acrobat Reader is available for no charge from the Adobe Systems, Inc. web site: Get it here! If you own Acrobat Exchange, or the Reader with Search Plugin, you can also use the enclosed Acrobat Catalog, which will allow you search the entire document for items of interest. This document was created using several steps: - run pod2ps against all documentation - Distill the PostScript file using Acrobat Distiller - Index the Acrobat file using Acrobat Catalog As the perl documents continue to develop, I'll try to keep this distribution up to date. If you are a perl extension author, and wish to make something like this available for your work, please contact me, and I'll try to find time to help. Bill Middleton wmiddlet@adobe.com wjm@best.com -- Bill Middleton - (408)536-2522, Pager: (415)907-1728 Computer Scientist, perl junkie Adobe Systems - San Jose, CA. .