PDF? 9pt? US Letter size? Re: WWW2016 Call for Research Papers (apologies for cross-posting)

Sarven Capadisli wrote:
> On 2015-08-20 15:29, Ian Horrocks wrote:
>> See http://www2016.ca/calls-for-papers/call-for-research-papers.html
>> for details and information on how to submit.
> 
> ...
> 
>> All submitted papers must
>>
>>     be written in English
>>     contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses
>>     be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template
>> (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a
>> font size no smaller than 9pt
>>     be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform),
>> and formatted for US Letter size
>>     occupy no more than ten pages, including the abstract and
>> appendices, but excluding references.

Thanks to Sarven for mentioning this.

Who is responsible for those requirements ?

In other words: Why are no webby requirements used instead?

I belong to those people who are reading scientific papers on a
smartphone and it is really uncomfortable to read PDF-files formatted
for US Letter size on such devices.

Cheers,
Andreas

Received on Friday, 21 August 2015 08:48:36 UTC