Re: web page accessibility :: PDF and print versions
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On 07/21/07 23:54, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> [070721 23:35]:
>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:26:54PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
>>> My web site includes links to documents in PDF format. Because of
>>> length, the documents are set in a 10-point font, with footnotes in an
>>> 8- or 9-point.
>>>
>>> I am attempting to accommodate visitors with impaired vision, by
>>> generating a HTML version of each PDF document, in order to enable a
>>> visitor to enlarge the type via the browser.
>>>
>>> But sometimes a visitor needs to be able to print out hardcopy for
>>> reading off-line. I do not know to specify the font size used in the
>>> print version of a HTML document. What is the mechanism? Does a
>>> browser access a default style sheet for printing?
>>>
>>> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>> Every PDF reader I'm aware of can zoom in. It's not quite as good as
>> zooming in on HTML, because the text doesn't reflow, but it works.
>
> Thanks, Carl.
>
> Of course, most visitors are running Window$, and I don't know what
> software most Window$ users employ for reading PDF. (I'll make a
> Google search.)
The Acrobat Reader, of course. What else?
> One visitor said that "Adobe 5" has the ability to increase the font
Christ on a stick, man. v5 is *ancient*.
> size. She said that she had purchased Adobe 5, but that it was rather
> expensive.
The Acrobat Reader is no-cost, and has been no-cost for *years*.
Many, many years.
> Again, the issue is with the font size in printed output.
You're changing the rules in mid-game.
First you say "enlarge the type via the browser", and now you say
"font size in printed output".
Make up our mind for us.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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