Re: N:Vision CFL's

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Technical documents probably lend themselves the most to "pan and scan"
type
reading. But PDF's are hardly device independent, and that was one of the
features of the web that made it so effective to begin with. The HTML
browser lays out the page depending on your display and text size
preferences. PDFs are a real bitch for the visually impaired compared to
a
web page that allows for dynamic text re-sizing. Based on the finely
detailed work in your XTB's, your vision is far better than mine.

What display settings are you using? What size monitor? I'll bet you're
running at much higher resolution than what I use. I run at 800 by 600 on
a
21" monitor and have problems seeing even at those settings. My browser
settings are for "largest text" and most HTML pages correctly handle that
increased magnification and allow me to read without resorting to a clumsy
screen magnifier program. That minor difference alone can make the PDF
experience just fine for one person and agonizing for another. That's
even
before one considers how much more security exposure is required to view
anything that's not standard HTML in a web browser.

There may be no avoiding PDF's in the modern web world, but they're
dreadfully overused. Web stuff should be HTML based. Stuff like PDF's
and
Active-X just add proprietary hooks to something that was designed to be
the
ultimate "open system" and should be avoided just on general principle.
(-:
That's my take on it, anyway.

This computer is 1280 x 1024 on a 17" monitor, but my office computer is
1024 x 768 on a decade old 14" monitor. I do understand your argument for
the visually impaired.

Since I store documents locally, I like the easy portability and compact
size of PDF documents. I wonder how large a typical 200 page PIC manual
would be in HTML... Then there is the portability issue and broken links.

I have never heard of any security issue associated with PDF files.

Jeff


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