Le lundi 17 octobre 2005 à 05:05 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > 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. And some old people (i am) dislike paper :) > 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. > > Well no comments, everything is said and explained. -- Gerard _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
