Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 07:33 +0200, Sean Wheller wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 March 2006 11:32, Emmanuel Pacaud wrote:
> > I don't think PDF is well suited for on screen reading. Font rendering
> > and glyph spacing make document harder to read than when it's in html.
> 
> PDF is every bit as readable as any other format. There is nothing to support 
> this claim, except what may be each of our personal preferences.

1) Paragraphs don't flow dynamically in PDF, so the page
can't automatically adjust to your font and window size.

2) PDF can't follow the color scheme of my theme.

3) PDF can't follow my desktop font settings.

4) PDF is explicitly paginated, which is just added noise
for a non-paged medium like the screen.

All of these can be summed up like so: PDF is designed for
fixed-size media, which the screen is not.

--
Shaun