TrendLabs 'Threat Trends 2010' - a very interesting report!

[Mike Easter]

Peter Foldes wrote:
> "Mike Easter"

>> The best way to see both halves of p2 is to use the hand tool to move
>> the 100% zoom level page manually from the left to the right, and then
>> you still can't actually make out what is written in the screenshots.

> There is nothing wrong at this end. Everything is clear and sharp and
> very readable

If you enlarge the poor resolution graphics on p2 R to 200% from 100%,
you will see that the graphics text is mostly in something resembling
Cyrillic. I don't believe that you are finding that 'readable'.

Re the text: I can read the gray on gray at 100%, but at 100% zoom, the
whole page isn't on the screen. That is inconvenient.

I can put the whole page on the screen in a black shadowbox arrangement
(black fields at bottom and top), but then the gray on gray text is much
smaller. While it is readable, it isn't my choice of 'clear and sharp'
because it would be clearer and sharper if there were either more
contrast or it were larger.


--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

~BD~ wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:

>> This .pdf was not designed with screen display in mind.

> I agree that your points are valid, Mike - but it may simply be that
> things have moved on rapidly with technology in the last five years,
> whilst your own equipment may not have been upgraded.
>
> I have no difficulty, none at all, in reviewing the text, and
> illustrations, in the format Trend elected to utilise - that's on my 24
> inch iMac screen! <grin>

Let us contrast the viewability and readability with this recent linux
magazine.

http://pclosmag.com/index.php/latest...nusos-magazine

At the bottom of that page is a download button. The .pdf doesn't offer
to open in your browser -- the page is configured to download it to your
disk where you can open it with the .pdf agent of your choice.

When you view that magazine in Presentation mode or Full screen or
whatever is your preference, the graphics are sharp, the columns are the
right width, the text contrast on the background is excellent.

There is nothing wrong with my 17" screen's ability to provide more real
estate and pixels than I need to read properly designed .pdf/s.


--
Mike Easter

[~BD~]

Mike Easter wrote:
> ~BD~ wrote:
>> Mike Easter wrote:
>
>>> This .pdf was not designed with screen display in mind.
>
>> I agree that your points are valid, Mike - but it may simply be that
>> things have moved on rapidly with technology in the last five years,
>> whilst your own equipment may not have been upgraded.
>>
>> I have no difficulty, none at all, in reviewing the text, and
>> illustrations, in the format Trend elected to utilise - that's on my
>> 24 inch iMac screen! <grin>
>
> Let us contrast the viewability and readability with this recent linux
> magazine.
>
> http://pclosmag.com/index.php/latest...nusos-magazine
>
>
> At the bottom of that page is a download button. The .pdf doesn't offer
> to open in your browser -- the page is configured to download it to your
> disk where you can open it with the .pdf agent of your choice.
>
> When you view that magazine in Presentation mode or Full screen or
> whatever is your preference, the graphics are sharp, the columns are the
> right width, the text contrast on the background is excellent.

I agree that *that* pdf is *vastly* superiour in quality to that pdf
from Trend.

> There is nothing wrong with my 17" screen's ability to provide more real
> estate and pixels than I need to read properly designed .pdf/s.

You've always been able to see PF's lies quite clearly, for sure! ;-)

[John]

Mike Easter wrote:
> ~BD~ wrote:
>> Mike Easter wrote:
>
>>> This .pdf was not designed with screen display in mind.
>
>> I agree that your points are valid, Mike - but it may simply be that
>> things have moved on rapidly with technology in the last five years,
>> whilst your own equipment may not have been upgraded.
>>
>> I have no difficulty, none at all, in reviewing the text, and
>> illustrations, in the format Trend elected to utilise - that's on my
>> 24 inch iMac screen! <grin>
>
> Let us contrast the viewability and readability with this recent linux
> magazine.
>
> http://pclosmag.com/index.php/latest...nusos-magazine
>
>
> At the bottom of that page is a download button. The .pdf doesn't offer
> to open in your browser -- the page is configured to download it to your
> disk where you can open it with the .pdf agent of your choice.
>
> When you view that magazine in Presentation mode or Full screen or
> whatever is your preference, the graphics are sharp, the columns are the
> right width, the text contrast on the background is excellent.
>
> There is nothing wrong with my 17" screen's ability to provide more real
> estate and pixels than I need to read properly designed .pdf/s.
>

@ Mike Easter

It's time for my bed now - but you might like to report your
observations on the Trend forum, here:-

http://community.trendmicro.com/t5/H...d-p/homeoffice

[Mike Easter]

~BD~ wrote:

> I have no difficulty, none at all, in reviewing the text, and
> illustrations, in the format Trend elected to utilise - that's on my 24
> inch iMac screen! <grin>

Here's the ebook condition of that Trend document.

http://us.trendmicro.com/us/trendwat...eat%20Report/0

(That link comes from a link on this page
http://us.trendmicro.com/us/trendwat...hreat-reports/
embedded in the text called 'view as an eBook.'

I believe that your 24" iMac screen might be in a 16:10 aspect ratio,
and that ebook gizmo might display the contents of the .pdf even better
than your browser's .pdf plugin.

--
Mike Easter

[Mike Easter]

John wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:

>> There is nothing wrong with my 17" screen's ability to provide more real
>> estate and pixels than I need to read properly designed .pdf/s.
>>
>
> @ Mike Easter
>
> It's time for my bed now - but you might like to report your
> observations on the Trend forum, here:-
>
> http://community.trendmicro.com/t5/H...d-p/homeoffice

Well, I'm not a big one for trying to convince someone to fix something
they built into a manner to suit me.

The ideal way to demonstrate my many gripes, and I haven't even gotten
to what I think is wrong with the way they built a couple of their pie
graphs, would be to 'rebuild' the .pdf into a proper configuration.

And one still wouldn't be able to fix the poor resolution of the
graphics without having some good rez graphics to begin with.

Maybe someone built/created this paper into a little square printed
booklet and they took the booklet and scanned it in OCR mode so that
made it possible to copy the text and the result was something designed
for a square printed booklet, not a screen display.

Whereas the linux magazine was designed with Scribus from the ground up
for screen display.

What needs to happen with the Trend doc if there is digital content of
all of the pieces is to 'republish' the document in a better format.


--
Mike Easter

[~BD~]

Mike Easter wrote:
> ~BD~ wrote:
>
>> I have no difficulty, none at all, in reviewing the text, and
>> illustrations, in the format Trend elected to utilise - that's on my
>> 24 inch iMac screen! <grin>
>
> Here's the ebook condition of that Trend document.
>
> http://us.trendmicro.com/us/trendwat...eat%20Report/0
>
>
> (That link comes from a link on this page
> http://us.trendmicro.com/us/trendwat...hreat-reports/
> embedded in the text called 'view as an eBook.'
>
> I believe that your 24" iMac screen might be in a 16:10 aspect ratio,
> and that ebook gizmo might display the contents of the .pdf even better
> than your browser's .pdf plugin.
>

My screen is 1929 x 1200

The ebook format is an interesting alternative, but I don't consider it
any better (or worse!) to review the content!

[John]

~BD~ wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> ~BD~ wrote:
>>
>>> I have no difficulty, none at all, in reviewing the text, and
>>> illustrations, in the format Trend elected to utilise - that's on my
>>> 24 inch iMac screen! <grin>
>>
>> Here's the ebook condition of that Trend document.
>>
>> http://us.trendmicro.com/us/trendwat...eat%20Report/0
>>
>>
>>
>> (That link comes from a link on this page
>> http://us.trendmicro.com/us/trendwat...hreat-reports/
>>
>> embedded in the text called 'view as an eBook.'
>>
>> I believe that your 24" iMac screen might be in a 16:10 aspect ratio,
>> and that ebook gizmo might display the contents of the .pdf even better
>> than your browser's .pdf plugin.
>>
>
> My screen is 1920 x 1200
>
> The ebook format is an interesting alternative, but I don't consider it
> any better (or worse!) to review the content!

Oops!

EDIT:

1920 x 1200

[Mike Easter]

Mike Easter wrote:
> ~BD~ wrote:

>> 24 inch iMac screen!

> I believe that your 24" iMac screen might be in a 16:10 aspect ratio,
> and that ebook gizmo might display the contents of the .pdf even better
> than your browser's .pdf plugin.

Nahh. In some ways, the ebook display gizmo /adds/ to the format
problems rather than helping.

The document looks like it is a square booklet. When you open its
booklet pages at the spine as they did, then the aspect ratio becomes
2:1, which is too wide even for your 16:10 aspect ratio iMac.

Then on top of that, the ebook display gizmo comes along and puts its
page handling 'arrows' on the *outside* of the too wide format, meaning
that you /now/ need 2.5 units of horizontal screen per 1 unit of
vertical so that you have the page turning 'handles' on your screen.

The 'ideal' screen aspect for the ebook gizmo for the Trend doc would be
5:2, a ridiculous ratio.

Considering that my screen is 1280x1024 or 5:4, I would need 2 screens
side by side to embrace such a 5:2 ratio.


--
Mike Easter

[Peter Foldes]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote in message
news:93gd4oF36iU1@mid.individual.net...
> John wrote:
>> Mike Easter wrote:
>
>>> There is nothing wrong with my 17" screen's ability to provide more real
>>> estate and pixels than I need to read properly designed .pdf/s.
>>>


Are you answering BD or John Mike? They are one and the same

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Peter
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