On 05/05/2012, at 4:29, Christian Lohmaier <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi *, > > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: >> I just received a printed copy of the LibreOffice 3.4 Getting Started >> book from Lulu.com. Wow, the cover looks good on the real book! :-D >> http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/libreoffice-34-getting-started/12820113 >> >> Interior's not bad, either. For the printed copies, I reduced the page >> size to 6x9, which seems to work well although the text font is almost >> too small and the interior (binding edge) margin is a bit too narrow. > > A sans-serif font is used for the body text. Is that intentional? > > I find serif fonts much easier to read on paper. (I love the look of > Gentium - unfortunately it doesn't look as well on screen as it does > on paper..) > > ciao > Christian > PS: only subscribed to the marketing list > Sans serif was chosen for the PDF version, which is primarily intended for onscreen reading. The printed books use the same PDF because this is the most efficient way to produce them. Changing the font for the printed version causes other, unwanted changes such as page breaks and means another round of QA on the books. Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
