Ed,

Someone said getting old isn't for sissies, I got my ipad2 for christmas and 
love it but your right Ed the install manual font is small. Not great for us 
older folks


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On Dec 30, 2011, at 9:23 AM, "Joel C. Ewing" <jcew...@acm.org> wrote:

> First thing I do with new equipment/appliance manuals is either find and save 
> an on-line pdf version or scan them in as a pdf image document.  By keeping 
> all such in digital form, I can either find them later if needed as reference 
> or make them large enough to read easily.
> 
> Wife's iPad2 booklet this December was so small I had to scan at 300 ppi 
> instead of usual 150 ppi to get decently formed font and could barely read 
> the original hard copy even with my reading glasses!
> 
> Guess we should be thankful IBM chose bookmanager and pdf to save trees 
> rather than reducing z/OS manuals to 3x5 and microprint.
>  JC Ewing
> 
> On 12/29/2011 11:38 PM, Ed Gould wrote:
>> Scott:
>> 
>> Last year I got an brand new IPAD. The installation instructions were on
>> a 3 X 5 in a 4 page "booklet". The font size was 4 and I could not read
>> it to save my life. I had to get a friend to come over to read them so I
>> could do the "install".
>> Bah humbug so much APPLE being user friendly.
>> 
>> Ed
>> 
> ...
> 
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> Joel C. Ewing,    Bentonville, AR       jcew...@acm.org    
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