[Sigia-l] Texts in e-book (Microsoft/Adobe Reader) format

Boniface Lau boniface_lau at compuserve.com
Wed Dec 11 20:14:19 EST 2002


> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On
> Behalf Of Rachel-Pace
>  
[...]
> Unfortunately, several of these books were poorly thought out and
> use the 2 column format - this is bad in the extreme.

The 2-column format doesn't leave much room for zooming in before 
having to do horizontal scrolling.

Since PDF e-books cannot reflow a page after a font size change, they
are worse than Microsoft e-books.

Overall, e-books are very constraining when comparing with HTML pages.


Boniface



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