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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 397307" data-attributes="member: 725">One problem publishers seem to have is that their target audience aren't your average computer users. They range from piss poor students with a 33k6 modem and a 14"@800x600 screen to the rich kid that has 8Mbit ADSL and a 22"@1600x1200 or higher resolution. Also, some want to watch it on screen only and others want to print it out either in full color or with as little ink used as possible.Most PDF publishers don't sell in the volumes such as Monte, and even Monte has a really small audience. With a small audience divercity is a killer, because a few in the upper or lower ranges might mean the difference for a publisher to win or lose money.It's currently not that difficult to please different groups of people, mostly because the work involved in supplying different formats isn't that much. Most Good DTP programs allow you to distill in different compression methods and resolutions. Making four different files, low, medium, high quality and no images only takes me 10 extra minutes max. Integration into a webshop might be a bit more difficult, but after the initial investment of time shouldn't be a real problem.I'm thinking up this database driven system that will generate files on demand and to specific user requests, color/grey/B&W, A4/Letter, 2/3 column, low/medium/high/non, lettertype used and size, etc. It won't be easy, but would be very user pleasing...</blockquote>