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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1397094" data-attributes="member: 813">Reading on the screen is a user problem that Acrobat gives the user many tools to work with to make easier, i.e. ZOOM. Any PDF I make, I assume will be printed. PDFs are page oriented, unlike HTML, which is content oriented. Since the creator decides the page size, it makes sense that he does so from the point of view of printing said page. 12 point for me looks gargantuan on paper and on screen it also seems wasteful. I prefer as much information as possible in as small a space as possible in all ways I acquire information.I don't like reducing page count to conserve paper or toner. I do so to reduce SPACE. Carrying 20 sheets of paper weighs less and takes less space than 30 sheets of paper. And I will on occasion print 9-point pages 2-up and double sided.That's a bit pathological. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /> But, if you aren't going to hyphenate, don't justify. Large spacings between words slow reading comprehension.It distracts the eye as you reach the edges of the paper. When you learned to read, they didn't give you copies of Wired magazine to learn to read with, they gave you books with plain white borders. And those borders usually exceeded an inch in size. Your eye was trained to start scanning for the next line of text as it approached the white border. Squiggly lines and stuff in the place where the white space should be is a distraction. It adds no value to the content and is not needed for emphasis/deemphasis.Many pubs release both a full-color screen-only PDF with full graphics and a stripped, no-nonsense print PDF. Your sentense has the opposite meaning. If you are planning to professionally print your product, its layout should not be included with the PDF versions you intend to sell. Both the on-screen and for-print PDFs should be low resolution to facilllitate low download size. Printing the low-res PDF is no problem if there aren't any images in it. The document you send to the printer should have images with high resolution. No need to send that to people buying the PDF.</blockquote>

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