Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:42:55 -0800
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From: "William W. Viergever" <wwvierg@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: SAS OnlineDoc
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At 03:13 PM 1/16/2002 -0500, Michael L. Davis wrote:
>Hello Stan and other SAS-L Friends,
>
>The short answer is that the PDF (Acrobat) version of OnlineDoc, which is
>purchased at extra cost from SAS, shows the same image that you would see
>if you were to purchase the paper version of those manuals. As such, when
>you print out a portion, the information breaks cleanly at the end of each
>page. The content of each page is laid out to fit on each printed sheet.
>
>The HTML version of OnlineDoc does not do this since HTML does not respect
>the concept of pager pagination. On the other hand, for quick reference on
>a screen, I prefer the HTML version since it loads faster.
Mad Doggy is right on. IIRC, there a bunch of us who had lamented not
having a hardcopy manual w/ which to retreat to the house "library" on
Sunday mornings <g>, hence the PDF's solved that.
>Please keep in mind that both the HTML and PDF are as of Release 8.0. SAS
>has distributed C&E documents for Release 8.1 and 8.2 but they are not
>integrated with the OnlineDoc.
True. Didn't we hear v9 before they'd have sort of "real-time" updates of
the DOCs?
Also, and perhaps not germane to the thread, but as a know-nothing HTML
guy, I actually played around w/ a couple of the OnLine HTML files and it's
pretty easy to bring the C&E's into at least one or two of the extant pages
so you have a launch point at least frm the main do.
FWIW, ditto for the misc. SUGI proceedings (albeit PDFs). Of late, they
pack the current and last two SUGIs on a CD, so when I copy it onto my
laptop, I only need the current proceedings. A couple of tweaks to the
"links" in Acrobat, and voila, I can bounce back & forth between *all* SUGI
proceedings.
Later
>- Michael "Mad Doggy" Davis
>
>At 12:41 PM 1/16/2002 -0700, "Stanley A. Gorodenski"
><vvgsgor@DE.STATE.AZ.US> wrote:
>>I have two disks of the version 8 SAS OnlineDoc. One disk is labled PDF
>>Format, the other HTML format. What advantage is there to having this
>>software? The description I have of what they can do is short, but it
>>appears that with these one can access things like the version 8
>>Procedures Guide, vol 1 & 2, and print them out in lieu of buying the
>>manuals. If true, it would imply that this cannot be done without the
>>disks. Is this correct?
>>
>>Stan
>
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