Dragon article format

[Tervin]

First, I can read the entire page on my wide screen monitor without any scrolling.

Other PDFs I read 2 pages at once on a wide screen monitor without scrolling. Works well from 17" and upwards. With the new format I only get one page at a time, which is a little bit annoying. As for printing - less info per page with this format, since it is not fully landscape.

Still, if people prefer it this way I am ok with it. More importantly several of the new articles have been really good - especially when it comes to Dragon.

 

[WhatGravitas]

...less info per page with this format, since it is not fully landscape.

What do you mean by "not fully landscape" - I think your problem is that the PDFs are in the letter format, whereas we Europeans use DIN A4. Which, incidentally, is something I really dislike - DIN A4 is much better - from my point of view!

Cheers, LT.

 

[Tervin]

What do you mean by "not fully landscape" - I think your problem is that the PDFs are in the letter format, whereas we Europeans use DIN A4. Which, incidentally, is something I really dislike - DIN A4 is much better - from my point of view!

Cheers, LT.

You are right, wasn't even realising it was Landscape of that silly Letter format. Thinking about it, portrait of Letter is no good for monitors, as you can't view two pages at a time in any good way. That explains why Landscape would be preferable to them.

And of course A4 is better than Letter - which is just illogical and stupid I am glad the Brits have learnt the goodness that is A4 these days. My first computer+printer was an Amstrad which used Foolscap as standard...

 

[Leatherhead]

In this age of technology, everyone should know how to press the one button needed on the Print... interface to change the print from portrait to landscape. If they CANNOT do so, they need to go back to the instruction manual.

I would settle for a version that had less colors and pictures so it doesn't eat up my ink cartridges.

 

[Jhaelen]

What do you mean by "not fully landscape" - I think your problem is that the PDFs are in the letter format, whereas we Europeans use DIN A4. Which, incidentally, is something I really dislike - DIN A4 is much better - from my point of view!

Yay! Hooray for DIN!
I wouldn't mind at all if the hardcovers were in A4 format as well

 

[JoeGKushner]

In this age of technology, everyone should know how to press the one button needed on the Print... interface to change the print from portrait to landscape. If they CANNOT do so, they need to go back to the instruction manual.

And what's that going to do for the color? I mean, outside of printing in black and white, and still wasting more ink than necessary thanks to borders...

 

[blargney the second]

Unzipped PDFs that are formatted well for on-screen reading? Giddyup.

 

[Zurai]

I would settle for a version that had less colors and pictures so it doesn't eat up my ink cartridges.

Now that I can agree with. I assumed (I know, bad me) that, since the discussion was on portrait vs landscape, the complaint about printability was a portrait vs landscape issue, since no other issue was identified in the post.

 

[Destil]

I hate PDF. End of story. This is a very clear abuse of the format. PDF is good for exactily one thing: printing things in the original layout that it's designed in.

If they're finally conceding to the idea that this it to be read on a PC instead of printed then it should be done in HTML/XML so you can just... you know. Read it in a browser. With a font size and resolution set to match your monitor.

Hopefully it's the first step to kill PDF entirely... I'm not optimistic enugh to expect it, though.

 

[Festivus]

I hate PDF. End of story. This is a very clear abuse of the format. PDF is good for exactily one thing: printing things in the original layout that it's designed in.

If they're finally conceding to the idea that this it to be read on a PC instead of printed then it should be done in HTML/XML so you can just... you know. Read it in a browser. With a font size and resolution set to match your monitor.

Hopefully it's the first step to kill PDF entirely... I'm not optimistic enugh to expect it, though.

Well, the only thing is that I plan on printing every single issue out in full color and bindering them... because I really dislike reading docs on screen as opposed to sitting on the can.