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Format PDF docs as 5X7 landscape for on-screen reading, not letter-sized paper
- anigbrowl 16y agoDisagree. I use a widescreen monitor; although it can swivel from portrait to landscape (which is very cool), I rarely use this, because having it horizontal lets me view 2 pages at once. Of course, this is predicated on the assumption that the lawyers you address are trying to reach other lawyers, rather than a general audience. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm working on it so I do read a lot of dense text. When studying a complex subject, it's important to me to be able to jump back several paragraphs - perhaps because I didn't fully understand something, or to reconnect with a dangling open clause, or whatever. So I prefer to have about the same amount of text on display as I would with a textbook or reference work - otherwise I am doing a lot of paging back and forth with the mouse or keyboard. This gets old fast - indeed, I find that I much prefer sitting in the library with books for studying the fundamentals, and then using the computer for specific targeted inquiries, such as the most current regulation or a recently published opinion. I find the same thing with web pages. So I reduced the text in your (very interesting) notebook articles twice, in order to be be able to see more of it at once. At the 20 point size you suggest I can't see more than about 150 words at once, and I feel like I'm looking at a Powerpoint slide. I look forward to seeing your e-book, but hope you'll also make it available in a more conventional layout for reactionary paginators like myself.
- dctoedt 16y ago[From OP:] Thanks for the feedback. I definitely understand your point of view when it comes to dense text. I just edited the blog posting to specify that a reader can use Adobe Reader's two-up page display so as to see two pages at once.