PDF - Portrait or Landscape

[Brown Jenkin]

20 inch laptop screens?

How many of us use laptops and how many use bigBoxes?

My 1920x1200 24" widescreen monitor almost demands it.

 

[JVisgaitis]

20 inch laptop screens?

How many of us use laptops and how many use bigBoxes?

Good question. My laptop is a Macbook and that's a widescreen too though at 13.3". Even for that, I prefer portrait.

 

[Jasperak]

Landscape on screen, but, if feasible, another PDF of portrait for potential printing (like some companies have B&W versions). Maybe that's too much formatting work, though.

This is what I would have voted

 

[Hussar]

PDF - Portrait or Landscape

We seem to be seeing more and more material being released in the once-shunned landscape format. Here's your chance to sound off in a simple binary poll that is bound to frost someone's ass. Be sure to post and tell me how you wish there were more options.

Mark, I just sprayed coffee all over my pivot widescreen.

I still prefer landscape on the screen though. It's just way easier to read. I don't need two pages open at the same time - I'm only reading one. I'd need a pretty darn big monitor to be able to have two open at the same time and still read them comfortably. I think there are many, many people out there who have 17 inch monitors still as well. I don't think 20 is quite the standard yet.

 

[Henry]

In the modern computer world of 20 inch widescreens, you can fit a LOT more on a standard portrait view with two portrait pages side by side.

I'll keep my piddly little paid-for 17-inch CRT, thank you. The 20-inch and up widescreens are still well outside my budget range, so the landscape fitting definitely works better for me. Also, seeing as how most web sites are oriented in a landscape fashion, it gears users' minds toward a landscape configuration when reading PDFs onscreen.

 

[Mark]

I had expected it would be a bit closer.

 

[grickherder]

When I print a portrait PDF, I've taken to printing two pages on each legal sized paper (8.5x14). The portrait layout scales really well onto half a legal sized sheet.

I know it's extra work, but I've also really appreciated the PDFs I've bought where I got different print layouts. In A Wicked Age by Lumpley Games came with a bunch of different PDFs including ones optimized for screen and printing in different sizes.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Landscape as well, looks/reads quite nicely on my 17 inch (1366 X 768) laptop screen.

 

[Aus_Snow]

22" WS monitors with pivot function can be had for cheap. I don't understand why people see them as expensive, or for that matter, why they'd bother with anything less than say, 22". Even 24" or so can be bought new for not so much at all.

 

[Hussar]

22" WS monitors with pivot function can be had for cheap. I don't understand why people see them as expensive, or for that matter, why they'd bother with anything less than say, 22". Even 24" or so can be bought new for not so much at all.

Well, I dunno about you. For me, a 24 inch flatscreen is going to but an awful dent in 500 dollars where I live. Even an old used one is going to be a couple of hundred. For some people, that's not cheap.