Dan Rubin's Superfluous Banter - Latest Comments in Friday Update

Re: Friday Update

Didier Hilhorst — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:40:19 -0000

Joe — Thanks for pointing this out, great suggestion. I use a PocketPC regurarly and love to read PDF documents while traveling or not paying attention in lectures. However if PDF documents are not tagged Acrobat Reader will not reflow the content to match the (tiny) screen size. What follows is a nightmare of scrolling both horizontally and vertically. Insane!

Rest assured it will be tagged!

So yes, all publishers out there (especially those at Science Direct and others), please use tagged accessible PDF documents for all the right reasons, not just fancy people carying a PocketPC (although that should be enough to validate the effort from a financial and marketing perspective).

Oh, and while I'm ranting about PDFs: Why is text in most academic documents not selectable? Please, don't think this is an effective method against reproduction. It's simply a nuisance. Retyping quotes word by word is ridiculous and a complete waste of time.

Re: Friday Update

Joe Clark — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 23:07:29 -0000

Tagged accessible PDFs, please. InDesign can output them semi-automatically.

Re: Friday Update

Scrivs — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:28:56 -0000

So there is no book? :( Man that was a pretty good trick you pulled on me guys. What am I supposed to read now? Guess I will have to write my own book then...

Re: Friday Update

Andrew — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 04:07:22 -0000

Maybe I'll become a publisher to publish your book. Then I might be able to snag an early copy of it. :)