Re: rendering HTML - cross-platform font issue?

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

I have the same experience, except (as implied in djvu thread) to obtain
satisfactory legibility the text overfills the screen.  This effect I've
never experienced, before.  I view on average > one PDF document / day.

bc


Bob Sciamanda wrote:

> I notice the same readability problem on ( it seems) every pdf document I
> access on the web.  BUT, in contrast, the pdf documents which I uploaded
> to my Snell download site are quite readable at even small renditions.  I
> made these files long ago, using MS WORD.  What are other pdf generators
> doing differently - and how do we avoid doing it?  Who understands these
> things?
>
> Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
> Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
> trebor@velocity.net
> http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Mallinckrodt" <ajm@CSUPOMONA.EDU>
> To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 2:34 PM
> Subject: Re: rendering HTML - cross-platform font issue?
>
> | At 2:21 PM -0400 7/20/02, Carl E. Mungan wrote:
> |
> | >  >  http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/physics/degeneracy.pdf
> | >  >  http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/physics/rapidity.pdf
> | >
> | >Thanks! Those look great (when printed out), although I agree with
> | >Mark that for whatever reason, they have low resolution on-screen.
> |
> | Aha.  I see the same thing; I hadn't tried printing before.
> | Furthermore, I notice that even though these documents are almost
> | unreadable on my screen at any reasonable reading zoom factor, the
> | *more* I zoom in, the *sharper* they get.  Actually it looks like the
> | document is being rendered with a constant screen resolution of
> | several pixels and an antialias filter so that as the absolute size
> | of the characters gets greater, they appear *relatively* sharper.
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