[projectaon] Re: Can You Help...Create A Font?
- From: Jonathan Blake <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Project Aon List <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 14:56:53 -0800
This has been a helpful discussion for me. I agree, Ingo, that
publishing a format designed for printing makes very little sense.
I've got a reputation with my coworkers as the guy who never uses
paper. That's not wholly true, but there's almost never a single piece
of paper on my desk. What I'm saying is that someone printing out
their own books seems like something we don't necessarily want to
support.
On the other hand, PDF is nearly ubiquitous in a way that EPUB and
other eBook formats are not, it would be a lot more convenient for
non-savvy readers who wanted to download the books for offline reading
than our current ZIP files, and it could showcase high-res versions of
the illustrations (assuming we can effectively vectorize them).
I think the biggest barrier to implementation of PDF has been the
original desire to produce print-ready files with hand-corrected
pagination. If we relax that requirement and simply publish them the
way LaTeX generates them, would that remove our biggest obstacle? What
are the technical obstacles?
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Jon
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