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Originally Posted by Michele
Are these settings used to alter the format of pdf files to fit the reader?
If so, how/where are the settings applied to a pdf file?
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No, these were used to convert HTML documents into PDFs. I'm mostly interested in technical stuff that I get online, not fiction, which I haven't had time for since becoming a parent and working at Microsoft for the past five years (I did have a life once, and maybe one day I will again).
Anyway, the key thing I believe is the use of Helvetica fonts. I don't know the correct typographic terms but you want to avoid fonts that have any form of decorative noise, like horizontal parts at the top or bottom of lower-case Ls, for example. Also fonts that have different thicknesses depending on the slope of lines. Instead you want simple fonts with uniform thickness. That way the effect is very black and readable, vs gray.