diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/tools/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/tools/chapter.sgml
index fb49d80bc0..2fb91eb8ac 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/tools/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/tools/chapter.sgml
@@ -72,7 +72,9 @@
 
       <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>make JADETEX=no install</userinput></screen>
 
-      as necessary.</para>
+      as necessary.  Note that you can produce only HTML or ASCII
+      text output if you install the tools using <makevar>JADETEX=no</makevar>.
+      PostScript or PDF output require TeX.</para>
   </tip>
 
   <sect1>