On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:08:30PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:48:12PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > > It could be nice if all you send me a collection of ebooks you think > > is a must for a developer. Only HTML/PDF/PS/TXT formats. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Why is that? I find PDF/PS formats to be totally useless to me very often. > Reason? If it's packaged by an American developer, it will be in letter > papersize 99% of the time. (are there other parts of the world that use > letter?)
Acrobat Reader can change page format interactively. Anyway, HTML should be the preferred format _WHEN_ available. This is not always true. The same for other 'recent' device-independent formats such as docbook. > Not only is this totally useless if I want to print a few pages out of this, > but also I feel "disoriented" (I can't think of a better way to describe it) > when viewing a document on screen in this different aspect ratio. > > IMHO it would be better to provide HTML and text formats, together with the > source format from where on the preferred document format can be generated. > > > Regards, > > Filip > > -- > It's as BAD as you think, and they ARE out to get you. -- Francesco P. Lovergine
