I've received a number of PDF's from different sales organizations and publishers - each one is formatted for a printing.
1. I am not going to print the file to read it 2. I am going to read it on my workstation monitor 3. My workstation monitor is NOT in vertical page format but is landscape orientation 4. That means I have to scroll down and then back up for a multi-column page 5. Adobe Acrobat, and most/all PDF readers, will faithfully present the supplied PDF I whatever format it receives them and thus does not reflow the text/images for easy reading based on the platform 6. Epub files are nice but not easily read - same for mobi (which can only be read by a kindle or kindle app) 7. PDF's that are intended to be read on a workstation monitor should be formatted for easy reading that way a. Don't have multiple columns that cross a page boundary b. Don't split an article among non-contiguous pages c. Keep the pages to something that can be easily read on a horizontal display (think 17" display for most sitting around me or smaller if reading on a laptop) 8. Develop a pervasive file format that flows based on the display and is easy to read and replace PDF's by 2020 (or sooner) Rant off -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lionel B. Dyck Mainframe Systems Programmer - TRA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
