Re: Web Design: Would you design a PDF by writing Postscript in Notepad?

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From: Bergamot
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:02

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Andy Dingley wrote:
> On 16 Feb, 15:56, TaliesinSoft <taliesins...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Actually, I think the long term answer lies in the presentation device,
>> computer, cellphone, television, etc., having the capability of arbitrarily
>> magnifying, reducing, and navigating the image.
> 
> Not at all. For one thing, a simple form of this is just scrolling,
> moving an small viewport around a larger virtual canvas.  This needs
> manual intervention and it's annoying.

This is pretty much how Flash zoom works (when it works at all), and
it's one of the most user-unfriendly things I've ever had to suffer.

-- 
Berg

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From: Bergamot <bergamot@visi.com>
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Subject: Re: Web Design: Would you design a PDF by writing Postscript in Notepad?
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