Strangelove
Mongoose
I just bought the entire Mongoose Traveller selection from Drive Thu RPG, almost broke $200 which is a new record for me, and while browsing some of the books I wondered what sort of trouble it would be to offer the PDFs for landscape viewing instead of their current portrait.
Books you hold in your hands obviously work better in a portrait format but as all modern LCD screens are 16x9 that vertical 8.5x11 format causes a pain depending on the screen size. You either have to zoom in the page and scroll up and down a lot or zoom it out to see a whole page with tiny text.
Now, I mainly read PDF on my iMac which is one of the Aluminum 24" models so I can put Adobe Reader full screen and get two pages at full scale with no problems thanks to the 1920x1200 resolution. I recently picked up a 10" eeePC which is a 1024x600 resolution which is ok for web browsing but reading PDFs involves a ton of scrolling.
I was just pondering how much trouble/work it would be to make the PDFs available in landscape since that would match all the LCD screens most people read them on. Anyway something to think about since the PDFs are sort of for a different market maybe they should be formatted more to fit that user rather than just being a clone of the print books.
Books you hold in your hands obviously work better in a portrait format but as all modern LCD screens are 16x9 that vertical 8.5x11 format causes a pain depending on the screen size. You either have to zoom in the page and scroll up and down a lot or zoom it out to see a whole page with tiny text.
Now, I mainly read PDF on my iMac which is one of the Aluminum 24" models so I can put Adobe Reader full screen and get two pages at full scale with no problems thanks to the 1920x1200 resolution. I recently picked up a 10" eeePC which is a 1024x600 resolution which is ok for web browsing but reading PDFs involves a ton of scrolling.
I was just pondering how much trouble/work it would be to make the PDFs available in landscape since that would match all the LCD screens most people read them on. Anyway something to think about since the PDFs are sort of for a different market maybe they should be formatted more to fit that user rather than just being a clone of the print books.