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1. Download

These materials are made available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) format for download.

Page layout choices:

Release 2008-01-27 - Seventh Edition - ISBN 978-1-894049-19-1

Publications in US-letter paper size - electronic viewing or full-size print

• pfux-20080127-us-sgl-pdf.zip - 2,377,094 bytes - single sided, full page, hyperlinked, bookmarked
• pfux-20080127-us-dbl-pdf.zip - 2,409,367 bytes - double sided, long edge duplex, full-page, hyperlinked, bookmarked

Publications in US-letter paper size - half-size print only

• pfux-20080127-us-2up-pdf.zip - 1,511,396 bytes - 2-up per page, long/short edge duplex, half-page
• pfux-20080127-us-half-sgl-pdf.zip - 1,514,988 bytes - single sided, half-page, cut, stacked
• pfux-20080127-us-half-dbl-pdf.zip - 1,515,659 bytes - double sided, short edge duplex, half-page, cut, stacked

Publications in A4 paper size - electronic viewing or full-size print

• pfux-20080127-a4-sgl-pdf.zip - 2,398,304 bytes - single sided, full page, hyperlinked, bookmarked
• pfux-20080127-a4-dbl-pdf.zip - 2,428,679 bytes - double sided, long edge duplex, full page, hyperlinked, bookmarked

Publications in A4 paper size - half-size print only

• pfux-20080127-a4-2up-pdf.zip - 1,545,348 bytes - 2-up per page, long/short edge duplex, half-page
• pfux-20080127-a4-half-sgl-pdf.zip - 1,549,762 bytes - single sided, half-page, cut, stacked
• pfux-20080127-a4-half-dbl-pdf.zip - 1,550,024 bytes - double sided, short edge duplex, half-page, cut, stacked

Publication in accessible form

• pfux-20080127-acc.tar.gz - 262,411 bytes - TAR/GZIP monospaced screen-reader-friendly format
• pfux-20080127-acc.zip - 281,471 bytes - ZIP monospaced screen-reader-friendly format

Sample scripts and data files

• pfux-20080127-samp-tar.tar.gz - 22,075 bytes - TAR/GZIP of complete book samples
• pfux-20080127-samp-zip.zip - 42,059 bytes - ZIP of complete book samples

Notes:

• bookmarks and hyperlinks are only active in the 1-up full-sized page renditions
• the A4 page size is typically used outside of North America, while the US-letter page size is typically used within North America; if you attempt to print the A4 image on US-letter, you will lose the marginalia at the bottom of the page
• versions have their margin adjusted for left edge hole punching or binding
• "cut, stacked" refers to the act of cutting the pages in half after being printed and stacking the left stack on top of the right stack before binding
• "short edge duplex" and "long edge duplex" refer to the orientation edge when printing double sided
• you no longer need to select the text of the publication to get working samples of the files used in the materials; the pfux-????????-samp-zip.zip file contains all of the sample and invocation files used in the body of the text; there is a shallow directory structure that could be preserved when unzipping, though this is not critical

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The new drawing format and new publishing versions reflect responses from current customers. Examples have been added where asked ... please let us know if there are places where you feel more information should be added to the training material.

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