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Designing for specific devices

Comment by Peter Anderegg on March 10, 2009

It's a little difficult to take an article on design too seriously when the font used is difficult to read (not stress, tall x-height) and when the PDF is not formatted for the media on which it is presented. Too often PDFs are simply thrown online, created from a "typical" 8.5x11 format, in portrait.

PDF requires careful thought and design for use as screen readin

Comment by Peter Anderegg on April 4, 2005

The PDF format has become ubiquitous for posting existing documents online. Unfortunately, little thought seems to be given to making the on-screen presentation of the printed page palatable to on-line readers. Often, those little 1 page Word documents should be posted as HTML.

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