Re: Converting REC-xmlschema-1-20010502 to PDF

Ron Jacobs <rjacobs@gforce.com> writes:

> For some time now I have been using Adobe Acrobat to download W3C documents
> for easy offline reading.
> 
> What is going on in the HTML for REC-xmlschema-1-20010502
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1> that causes Acrobat 4.0.5 to scale this
> document so poorly? The lines are about 22 inches wide if I turn off scaling
> and the text is far too small if I enable scaling.

I will have a look at this in due course.  We worked _very_ hard to
get the document looking good in reasonably CSS-conformant browsers,
then even _harder_ to make it work with [unprintable libellous opinion 
removed] Netscape-4.7, and I'm afraid trying to add another rendering
engine to the mix was quite impossible.  I expect the problem may have 
something to do with wide blocks in the printable HTML, but since
there are no standards/guidelines for this sort of thing, I'm unlikely 
to figure it out.

All volunteer efforts to locate/suggest fixes for the problem(s) here
are welcome.

ht
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