Redesign of dlang.org

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 01:54:29AM +0000, bearophile via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Walter Bright:
> 
> >I've recently seen some academic research PDF's where the font is so
> >small that even if I go full screen on them they are very hard to
> >read.
> 
> Some combinations of PDF readers and PDF files support reflow, so
> later you can also increase the zoom. Another solution is to buy a
> wider screen, now even wide ones are kind of cheap.

I don't like wide screens that much, actually. I still prefer 4x3 aspect
ratio. I kinda agree with Nick that wide screens are more like
half-height screens. :-P


> >I don't get the reason for doing this. Are they trying to save paper
> >or something?
> 
> They are often trying to save paper. Some conferences (and sometimes
> even some journals) set a maximum limit of pages for submitted papers.
[...]

You mean, they're trying to save on pages? I don't think the journal
publisher necessarily cares about *paper* per se, but more about the
cost of printing too many pages.


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