Re: Publishing Formats

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Mon 24 Jun 2024 at 22:34:39 (+0000), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> Someone gave me an old SCEPTRE display with a screen 11.5 inch by 22
> inch.  I never before saw the usefulness of a wide screen.
> 
> A reader such as Atril can take advantage of the wide screen, allowing
> me to zoom in until the type size is comfortable, without the need to
> scroll left and right to read each line.

Scrolling side to side, particularly with a mouse, is very
frustrating, and up and down can be nearly as bad for
reading two-column pages.

But AFAICT, at the 150% magnification that the OP of the other
subthread¹ said was comfortable, the document in question,
TFP2021.pdf, should be just readable on a screen only 11" width,
with no side-to-side scrolling necessary except for the radar
plots (fig 2) and, of course, the landscape format appendix 3
tables.

This does rely, however, on the ability of the viewer to scroll
vertically, at will, without the horizontal position being disturbed,
as xpdf, for example, can do. (I've never seen atril.)

¹ "Needed tool for vision-impaired".

Cheers,
David.