Comments on: Friday Update http://superfluousbanter.org/archives/2004/01/friday-update/ Suffering from chronic idiocy since 1977 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:03:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Didier Hilhorst http://superfluousbanter.org/archives/2004/01/friday-update/comment-page-1/#comment-1487 Didier Hilhorst Mon, 02 Feb 2004 04:40:19 +0000 http://superfluousbanter.org/beta/archives/2004/01/friday-update/#comment-1487 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. 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.

]]> By: Joe Clark http://superfluousbanter.org/archives/2004/01/friday-update/comment-page-1/#comment-1486 Joe Clark Mon, 02 Feb 2004 04:07:29 +0000 http://superfluousbanter.org/beta/archives/2004/01/friday-update/#comment-1486 Tagged accessible PDFs, please. InDesign can output them semi-automatically. Tagged accessible PDFs, please. InDesign can output them semi-automatically.

]]> By: Scrivs http://superfluousbanter.org/archives/2004/01/friday-update/comment-page-1/#comment-1485 Scrivs Sun, 01 Feb 2004 21:28:56 +0000 http://superfluousbanter.org/beta/archives/2004/01/friday-update/#comment-1485 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... 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…

]]> By: Andrew http://superfluousbanter.org/archives/2004/01/friday-update/comment-page-1/#comment-1484 Andrew Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:07:22 +0000 http://superfluousbanter.org/beta/archives/2004/01/friday-update/#comment-1484 Maybe I'll become a publisher to publish your book. Then I might be able to snag an early copy of it. :) Maybe I’ll become a publisher to publish your book. Then I might be able to snag an early copy of it. :)

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