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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 3811629" data-attributes="member: 40359">Are we talking about the "download this article" link?That isn't the "real pdf" version. They've said that would be compiled at the end of the month. That is just the exact same function that has been on the site for years now. They have had a printer-friendly version which is the same html just with the surrounding site "chrome" removed so you only have the content itself. The "download the article" is just the printer-friendly html spit into a pdf document. Those are very old functions that have been on the site for years and are still hooked up (browse around the 3.5 archives to see for yourself).So I wouldn't read anything into how the pdf compilation of the entire issue will look like. If that is just taking the html and spitting it into a pdf, then, yeah, that's incredibly lame. However, Chris Thomasson has talked about the effort they are putting into the layout and graphic design of the PDF <a href="http://forums.gleemax.com/showpost.php?p=13895240&postcount=6" target="_blank">here</a>. So, no, they aren't just dumping the html into a pdf and calling it done. This is just the same old function that has been there for ages and not representative of how the PDF of the entire issue will look in the least.Cropping issues and all that jazz are just a matter of the current automated pdf function they have built in. I'm sure it's just some component that is fed html from the database and regurgiates a pdf document. No cropping, layout, or manual effort at all. The compilation at the end of the month will be properly laid out and formatted and hopefully look snazzy and be as cool as they say it will be.</blockquote>

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