Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide
- From: Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>
- To: GNOME Desktop Developers Mailing List <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Cc: Emmanuel Pacaud <emmanuel pacaud univ-poitiers fr>, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>, GNOME Documentation <gnome-doc-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: PDFs for user-guide, accessibility-guide and system-admin-guide
- Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:06:37 +0000
On 8 Mar 2006, at 09:32, Emmanuel Pacaud wrote:
I don't think PDF is well suited for on screen reading. Font rendering
and glyph spacing make document harder to read than when it's in html.
Other points against PDF is that HTML rendering is faster, and page
layout of PDF files leaves a lot of unused space (page borders, space
between pages) with no gain regarding readability.
Also, PDF accessibility is pretty much zero in GNOME, which would be
kind of ironic for the accessibility guide if nothing else...
Cheeri,
Calum.
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