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Subject:Re: Downsizing (literally) the manuals From:"Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:06:27 -0600
We've recently discovered another cost to the smaller format. When the
user prints out a PDF of a small-format manual, the margins are
excessively large.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Rothbart [SMTP:ron -dot- rothbart -at- DOCUMENTUM -dot- COM]
>Subject: Downsizing (literally) the manuals
>
>Currently, our manuals are 8 1/2 x 11. We are proposing downsizing them to
>the standard 7 x 9 1/2 size. The response to our proposal is generally
>positive, but one marketing manager is asking for "data."
>...
>* The PDFs we make from our manuals would be more usable (less scrolling)
>...
>Are there other costs and benefits?
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