Why not put in fasmw package the HTML version of fasm manual (and the rest of HTMLs from the documentation section) instead of that bloated PDF
Besides, HTML version is much more better to look at and to navigate through.

Or am I forever condemned to download the prefered form of a manual separetly from the package?

Would appreciate if Tomasz changes his mysterious considerations.

The bookmarks in the PDF version make navigation very efficient, also a 400kb *.pdf really shouldn't be considered bloated.

I find that searching is easier with PDF's.

Firefox's ctrl+f is faster than with Adobe's PDF's, and it takes while to load up the PDF, even with 'optimized' reader which doesnt load unnecessary plugins.

But I can live with PDF's tho

Mozilla Application Suite (... 1.7.13 - closed)
and the all new Seamonkey (1.0 - 1.0.1)
have type-ahead-find that also Firefox incorporates.
You can just type - no other tricks needed.
Its easy to navigate to a link in a 100-page document
and press enter without searching or scrolling or pointing or clicking or ...

but still the PDF is meant for documents and its logical to have it this way. HTML tends to be bloat because it doesn't have compression.

pdf uses internally a lzw implementation, so it's compression is very poor and it makes file incompressible for normal packers. you can try this. make one normal pdf and compress with bzip2 and then make an uncompressed pdf and compress with bzip2. then compare sizes.

i will be happy if i have some tool for uncompressing pdf's.

i think that even good deflate implementation (like those in 7-zip or kzip) will provide better compression than pdf algorithms. maybe tomasz will send us an uncompressed version of fasm's manual...