RE: Line Size for page (FM 7.1)

["Joe Malin" <jmalin -at- tuvox -dot- com>]

| 
| If you're not printing the books, why bother with a 
| double-sided layout? It doesn't matter when reading online or 
| even if the customer prints the section they need. Less 
| hassle in the layout design for you..
| 

Someone else also suggested that an asymmetric layout wasn't necessary. 

| Second, you need to think about onscreen readability. For 
| most users, an 8.5 x 11 page is too large to comfortably read 
| on most monitors without having to scroll the page. You  
| might want to consider a landscape layout, use a sidehead 
| format or columns. A 7 x 9 page fits easier onscreen with 
| readable type than the larger page size. 

Duly noted.

Your advice is great!

I'm stuck here, though. I don't know if customers will want to read
online or print. I suspect they'll probably want to print more than they
read online.

Also, I plan to make the books available online in HTML, using WebWorks
to convert them. So they'd have another online alternative.

I am a real newbie in the print area. Do printed books need different
right/left layouts?

Joe



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