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Subject:Acrobat files From:geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA Date:Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:51:34 -0600
I just spent a frustrating half hour or so working with
some back issues of MacUser magazine provided in Acrobat
format. On my full-page ("portrait") display, the text was
illegibly small, and I had to zoom in and out constantly to
(respectively) read articles and find articles. The "find"
function was tedious even on a relatively fast Mac.
A warning: don't ever dump your paper docs online. (Horton
said this years ago; why doesn't anyone listen?) Format
them so they're legible on a typical small monitor, and for
heaven's sake, index your find function.
--Geoff Hart @8^{)}
geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
Disclaimer: If I didn't commit it in print in one of our
reports, it don't represent FERIC's opinion.
