[Techtalk] Gimp tutorials

[A. Mani]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Miriam English <mim at miriam-english.org> wrote:
> The trouble with pdf, djvu, ps, eps is that they are all paper-oriented,
> instead of screen-oriented.

djvu?

djvu is not paper oriented... it is primarily a format for the web and
electronic publishing with strong focus on size.
It beats jpeg in image handling for web and can be optimized for
hand-held devices
Specs: http://djvu.org/resources/


>The best way to make a text+graphics document
> suitable for screen display is html. This is because it is designed to fit
> itself optimally to whatever resolution device you have. Young kids with
> excellent eyesight tend to push their machines to the highest resolution
> possible whereas older folks generally use lower resolutions. Some people
> with older, less powerful machines have no choice but to use lower
> resolution displays. And handheld devices are overtaking desktops as the
> most used computers now. A page of sensibly designed html will reflow the
> page to display nicely on all those.

ok partly ... epub is ahead for screen reading.


Best

A. Mani



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