Hi Everyone, I will step in here to say a thing or two about PDF. My remarks are not directed in particular to a specific person. First off PDF is a modified Post-script language! 2 It is not necessarily bound to a particular page size. Page size is only part of the metrics. And a render does not need to respect them. 3 Scaling can be (depending on how it was created) done in the renderer and not on the rasterized form. 4 It is not just for paper. Apple has used it as a description language for screen display 5 Most PDFs are actually of poor quality. A good PDF should be scalable to any size without loss of quality. But, this also, depends on the render and resolution of the output device! On the other side EPUB and MOBI suffer from the same problems. regards Keith. Am 26.01.2011 um 22:38 schrieb Marcello Perathoner:
On 01/26/2011 10:25 PM, Walter van Holst wrote:
On 1/26/11 10:15 PM, Marcello Perathoner wrote:
I already generate PDF from RST in the lab.
Great.
But which PDF should it be?
PDF letter for U.S.? PDF A4 for the rest of us? PDF for Kindle? Kindle DX?
Neither my Iliad, nor any of my PDF viewers on any computer I have access have problems with the first two options. It is a matter of resizing for the viewer or printer (scale PDF fit to paper) and you're done. The US Letter format is not that much different from the A4 we use in the civilised world. I don't know about the latter two options, if they are just simplifications of the PDF standard, I don't care either because you can render those PDFs on other devices as well.
A PDF built for A4 will have very small type when viewed on an Iliad, or are you saying you can set negative margins so as to zoom into the page?
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