Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> wrote in
news:93gdl9F6lgU1@mid.individual.net:

> 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.
>
>

I'm running a 16:9 flatpanel 20" from Acer.. and the pdf comes up
alright at 100% resolution. Don't assume because your configuration
doesn't allow something that everyone elses is the same.


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