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Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:45:16PM -0400, Richard Kreiss achieved the spontaneous
generation of the following:
> Mark,
> 
> Read your article and found it informative.

Thanks, Richard!

> As for the complaints about performance etc, it really didn't bother me.
> Pages developed in a reasonable manner.

Everyone's going to be a bit different with the time for redraw.  I've been
annoyed with game manuals that are actually flat raster images that take
-longer- though, come to think of it.  The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has a
PDF that takes bloody forever to redraw.  I dunno if they rendered it at
like 1200dpi or what, but it actually takes as long or longer to pop pages
of that up on my screen, and scrolling is a nightmare too.  And what's
worse is they put full DRM on it, so you can't exactly copy/edit.  :-b~~~

> As for the comments about the background, it can be hard on older eyes
> trying to read text on pages with low contrast.  I hate web pages like that
> as I strain to read them at times or can't skim them too well.

Anyone that had issues with that layout can eval this visually to see if it
suits better:

     http://members.iglou.com/fairlite/testnew.pdf

No actual article in that...just dummy text on all three pages, but the
document structure is about the same.  It's 3-column instead of 1-column
right now, but that's changeable in seconds.  Folks can get an idea of
whether or not it addresses issues you may have had with my first layout
(which I still love and will likely use again for other purposes, but not
for articles).

Again, not meaning to turn this into "The DTP List", but if folks want to
drop me comments privately regarding better/worse and with any details that
would help me improve it if it's not improved enough, it'd be appreciated.
I -think- I addressed all the major points raised.

> Keep up the good work.

Thanks!  Will try!

mark->
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