- From: Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 18:17:18 +0100 (BST)
- To: William R Williams <wrwilliams@fs.fed.us>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, William R Williams wrote: > "For online reading, however, PDF is the monster from the Black Lagoon. It > puts its clammy hands all over people with a cruel grip that doesn't let > go." Thank goodness for that! It needed to be said by someone who gets listened to on usability. > Is anyone willing to agree or disagree with this stance? Can anyone, as > users, report definite problems with rendering PDF files? I find it a constant problem, for the simple reason that it's grossly inflexible. I usually need to increase the text size, but even without that a PDF viewer needs an uncomfortably wide window that precludes having anything else of meaningful size visible. At best it hogs the desktop - and gives me a headache after the first two or three pages. That's more a usability than an accessibility issue, though. -- Nick Kew In urgent need of paying work - see http://www.webthing.com/~nick/cv.html
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