The PureBasic Documentation in PDF format

Comtois · Post by **Comtois** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:43 pm

Have a look at compiler functions

Btw , Does MemoryID() exist ? I can see it here(handles)

Post by **Fred** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:52 pm

Right, MemoryID() is history, we will remove it.

techjunkie · Post by **techjunkie** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:09 pm

Really nice! and very professional looking!

My mates at work will kill me when I print it out... in colour... the full version... 644 pages!

Amundo · Post by **Amundo** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 3:04 am

Fa'afetai tele lava, PB Team!

Fangbeast · Post by **Fangbeast** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:06 am

techjunkie wrote:Really nice! and very professional looking! My mates at work will kill me when I print it out... in colour... the full version... 644 pages!

You couldn't afford to print me out a copy too???? (hopeful look)

/me falls off the chair

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 9:23 pm

Just printed out the B&W version.. full

byo · Post by **byo** » Sat Nov 24, 2007 2:23 am

My next purchase will be a Laserjet fosho.

oakvalley · Post by **oakvalley** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:44 pm

Hey, really nice manual. Professional and highly addictive.
Parts of my daytime job for 8 years is writing user manuals for maritime display and maritime computers.

Only thing I though was highly irritating is the choice of fonts here.
Times New Romanish style.. I hate it. It gets so thin in the edges. The most ugly font in history IMO. Its only sufficient for boring novels in paper format. Should not be used for anything else, but that is of course my opinion.

Choosing Arial would be more pleasant to the eyes... and no...and I do not even like the stupid ugly ClearType introduced in Office 2007 etc.. that is a really ugly attempt to make something look "better". Blurrer I would say.

Pforzheimer · Post by **Pforzheimer** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:23 am

Thanks for it

I would like a HTML-Version to dowload in an ZIP.

Will the V4.30-version be ready soon?

Greetings

Emiliano · Post by **Emiliano** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:58 am

oakvalley wrote: Only thing I though was highly irritating is the choice of fonts here.
Times New Romanish style.. I hate it. It gets so thin in the edges. The most ugly font in history IMO. Its only sufficient for boring novels in paper format. Should not be used for anything else, but that is of course my opinion.

Choosing Arial would be more pleasant to the eyes... and no...and I do not even like the stupid ugly ClearType introduced in Office 2007 etc.. that is a really ugly attempt to make something look "better". Blurrer I would say.

I completely disagree.
Serif fonts (the one used in the Manual is Latin Modern/Computer Modern) are required when writing long texts, since the serifs work as useful hints for the eye and allow it to don't become tired too soon. Sans serif fonts, like Arial, are suited for short texts only.
Among professional typographers and designers, Arial is widely disliked -- not only it is an obvious rip-off of Helvetica, but it is actually flawed (e.g. the space devoted to the "1" is too wide, and so on). Arial became one of the most used fonts in the world only after it was shipped with Windows: so every professional designer knows that if something is made with Arial, is made by an amateur or by someone who does not recognizes the flaws of Arial with respect of other sans serif fonts like Helvetica or Franklin.

Gansta93 · Post by **Gansta93** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:13 pm

Hello,

And what about the CHM documentation?
Will it disapear?

Post by **Fred** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:15 pm

PDF is a secondary format, why should the CHM disappear ? It's the one which is the more intregated with the IDE.

Gansta93 · Post by **Gansta93** » Tue Oct 14, 2008 10:20 pm

Hi,

Thank you very much for your fast answer.

afriend · Post by **afriend** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 6:56 am

When will the pdf documentation for PB4.30 appear

Post by **Fred** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:16 pm

It's already here.