On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 19:22:55 +0000, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) wrote: >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 > Aah! For the swiveling monitors. Or smartphones with accelerometers!
>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 > That's characteristic of presentation markup. >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) > You're wishing for semantic markup, such as the original, now long since adulterated design intent of HTML. Think also of Braille and audio readers. https://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
