Beating Paper
- From: Ryan King <rking panoptic com>
- To: evince-list gnome org
- Subject: Beating Paper
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:15:30 -0400
Here's a fundamental mismatch between paper .pdfs and on-screen .pdfs: The
aspect ratio of paper is taller, where screens are wider, and columned text
forces the on-screen version to either shrink the text (which also wastes the sides of the screen) or to scroll backward for each column.
Has anyone come up with a solution for this?
One would be to allow the user to repeat each page times N columns.
What do you all think of such a feature? It could be a fairly buried
feature to avoid distracting users who don't need it (such as putting it
below the "View" menu options, titled something like, "Repeat pages...",
which could bring up a dialogue explaining why it is useful and have an
input box for the number of repeats). Or, it could even be further buried
behind a command-line option.
One quick problem is the page numbers. I lean towards just letting them get
multiplied along with the artificial repetitions, but if someone else felt
that they should reflect the original document then I would not disagree.
Or maybe the idea is crazy. If it is too much so, I suppose I will just
write a ruby+pdftk script to burst columnar pdfs apart and cat them back in
multiples.
Any feedback is welcome.
-rking
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