On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:15:06 +0200, Jon Berndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I do not use paper, and under Linux ( i don't know for windows ) pdf
documents are unreadable ( an example is JSBSim quartely news letters)
with multicolumn and graphics. It is necessary to print it.
This is the first time I've heard that the JSBSim newsletter is
unreadable under Linux. I don't believe this is universally true. Which
PDF reader do you use?
Jon
The problem with pdf on screen is that the page layout is FIXED like it is
on paper. That is why it prints more consistantly , that page layout is
cast in stone. If you have a smaller screen or need larger text you have
to scroll _horezontally_ to read the document. To all intents and purposes
it becomes unreadable.
Under the same conditions html reformats to fit.
So as Gerard points out , and as I did earlier , it's a case of what we
want , screen or paper. Some older people still seem to need to print
everything they're going to read. Not that a correctly formatted html
document wont print correctly anyway.
Now if paper is taken to mean getting a book printed that's another game
and probably even the text would need to be presented in a different way
if it were for a book.
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