delving into ebook readers

Anthony de Boer adb-SACILpcuo74 at public.gmane.org
Sat Jun 9 04:23:28 UTC 2012


Myles Braithwaite wrote:
> PDF are really only in the A4 page layout. So make sure the E-Reader you buy is around the same size (i.e. 8.5" x 11") or a similar aspect ratio.

A4 is a European standard, and it's a bit taller and narrower than North
American 8.5x11" Letter.

Any attempt to render a document into a set page size becomes an exercise
in fail the moment you let an electronic copy cross the Atlantic, or
really get out of your hands at all.

(A possible compromise is to render to a virtual size as wide as A4 and
11" tall, and let the document have a silly excess right margin here and
bottom margin over there.  But reflowable documents are better.)

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