Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

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On 2009-07-01 22:38 Martin Rex said the following:

> 
> While I participated IETF Meetings in 1995-98, I often used "pstools" to
> create printed copies (2-up) of RFCs and Internet Drafts for reading
> while travelling and during meetings (didn't have a laptop).
> 
> I used a wrapping perl-script because it was a little difficult
> to cope with some documents (varying page lengths and no page feed
> control character, plus occasionally Word-corrupted quote characters).
> 
> Maybe the IETF could provide a conversion page on their Web-Server
> that can convert RFCs and Internet Drafts on the fly from their
> original ASCII-form into page-formatted PDF files, something like
> you post an URL in a Form, it gives you back a PDF.

Yes. Something like this already exists, has been available as an online
service since 2005, and was created explicitly to help people print documents:

  http://tools.ietf.org/pdf/

Regards,

	Henrik
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