02-21-2012, 09:32 PM | #31 |
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That's exactly where the issue resides, Jim. The user needs to find the problem first. In this particular case, the user is not the most reliable person to detect problems in the text because he or she has not seen it before. If the problem is not that visible or is mildly integrated into the text - and this is a real possibility - the user would just skip it. You need someone to look carefully for errors. That's the main reason books needs to be revised in the first place. Without the publisher defaults on, it is possible that the user wouldn't even noticed it.
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02-27-2012, 04:43 PM | #32 |
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From a publisher's point of view, I found that a reader's default settings wreaked a lot of havoc on image placement and captions. My guess is that 75% of the time the publisher knows the optimal way to present the content on a device. For the 25% of the time that the reader tweaks things, it mainly has to do with font size and to a lesser extent reducing margins to permit maximum word count.....
I don't have a problem with reader defaults overriding publisher defaults on font and size, but the margins make it more difficult to figure maximum width of things. that is a real problem. As Liz Castro said, support for media queries will fix a lot of these problems. |
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03-12-2012, 10:37 AM | #33 |
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Good documentation and adherence to standards would go a long way to solving these issues and giving readers (and eReading device customers) the best possible experience. Web dev is a useful model, see Baldur Baldassons' post:
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05-09-2012, 12:55 PM | #34 |
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Just as a complement of what we were discussing in this thread, I'd like to share a link to an interesting post by Michael Agresta in Slate Magazine pointing out some possible issues between the design of printed books and their digital counterparts. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/d...t_.single.html
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