Re: Html vs. Pdf

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- progeny -dot- com>]

"Bradbury, Geoffrey (RSA, Brisbane)" wrote:

> Yes, quite often PDFs are
> designed as the twin of their hard-copy sibling.

The trick to single-sourcing PDFs and paper copies is to reverse
this tendency: that is, to design for on-line reading. On-line
design works much better on paper than paper design works on-line.
In fact, I maintain that on-line design produces a more usable paper
manual.

The one drawback I can think of is that on-line design generally
takes up more pages.

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