I've done a quick-and-dirty sample of a 2-column layout for producing
PDFs instended for onscreen reading. Text font size increased to 13.
No indentation from column margin. Other tweaks would improve it.
Because this started out as a portrait page, it was a bit of a
nuisance to get into this format. However, I think that any document
starting out in this format would convert into portrait more easily
(if one had a need to do so) than the other way around -- mainly
because the tables and graphics would not be too wide for the page.
The result might look a bit odd, but at least nothing would fall off
the edge of the page, as happened with some of the tables and graphics
in the chapter I used for a test. (Some of this problem can be avoided
by inserting the tables and graphics differently -- I know this
because some convert and others don't -- but I'm not sufficiently
familiar yet with the process to know how to avoid the problems.)
The smaller column size also has the advantage of encouraging us to
crop graphics to fit, while showing essential information. This, of
course, takes more work than the easy way out of just shrinking the
larger screenshots, which tends to make them less crisp and in some
cases too small to read.
Would appreciate some feedback, especially from those of you who
mainly read PDFs onscreen rather than printing them. Later today I
will put the test PDF on one of my machines with a smaller screen size
and see how it looks to me.
--Jean
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