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| Re: Screen font pdf Reader |
| Author: | Andrew Denny |
| Date: | Saturday, 13th Dec 2008 15:10 |
| Views: | 1,233 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Computers and Software | | URL: | http://www.freepint.com/go/b421198 |
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Another thought is that different OSs tend to display text in different ways, and this carries through to the browsers.
E.g. As I understand it Safari (on both Mac and PC) concentrates on the 'look' of the fonts, hinting to create a more accurate font 'shape', whilst IE focuses on the sharpness of the individual pixels, creating a 'bittier' less accurate font, but sharper in its appearance.
The upshot is that when you view a PDF within the browser, it can look different in different browsers. I can't remember how Firefox does it, and Gmail's PDF preview might well be optimised for Google's own Chrome.
My own preference is for Microsoft's way of doing it onscreen, PDFs feel more 'readable' to me that way, but I'm sure you'll tell me I'm in a minority :-)
There's a good description of this difference here:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html
(sorry to be so technical, and I admit I'm not an expert anyway!) |
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| • | Screen font pdf Reader | | Does anyone produced a pdf reader that automatically converts and displays pdf text in a font that is easily readable ... |
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Nick Taylor |
05/12/08 15:01 |
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| • | Re: Screen font pdf Reader | | Hi Nick,
pdf uses the postscript language. Postscript is designed to look identical on different operating systems. It suffers from garbage ... |
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andrew |
18/12/08 09:27 |
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| • | Re: Screen font pdf Reader | | If you go into Preferences-Page Display and there you'll see that there's a category "Rendering" with a Smooth Text" feature. ... |
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Thad McIlroy |
18/12/08 01:05 |
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Mark Lardner |
17/12/08 09:09 |
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Helmut Herrmann |
16/12/08 23:13 |
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| • | Re: Screen font pdf Reader | | Another thought is that different OSs tend to display text in different ways, and this carries through to the browsers. ... |
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Andrew Denny |
13/12/08 15:10 |
421198 |
| • | Re: Screen font pdf Reader | | Google Mail has just introduced an alternative way of viewing PDF attachments - it displays them in the Google Docs ... |
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Andrew Denny |
13/12/08 14:58 |
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