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From: techwr-l-bounces+rick=rickquatro -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
<techwr-l-bounces+rick=rickquatro -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> On Behalf Of
Robert Lauriston
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 4:07 PM
To: TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Subject: Re: Odd/Even formatting
If you have trouble remembering that page 86 comes after page 85, that could
be a constant annoyance.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 1:01 PM, Rick Quatro <rick -at- rickquatro -dot- com> wrote:
> Of course in the Adobe example, they put all of their page numbers on
> the right side of the page (except the front matter) which is very
> awkward if you print it double-sided.
>
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> Robert Lauriston
>
> It looks old-fashioned to me. I read hundreds of PDFs a year and so
> few of them use left/right formatting that it's startling when I come
across one.
> It interferes with skimming.
>
> Adobe doesn't do it any more either.
>
>https://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/2019/using/framemaker_help.pdf
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