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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Which is again why I'm dying for someone to steal the good parts of the iPad and make an A4 or close sized tablet with good stylus support so I can start reading and marking up things electronically in a manner that's just a quick and easy as doing it on paper.
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Hmm. Everyone agrees that printing is a waste, yet so many PDFs are still formatted for letter / A4 sized
paper, as if everybody is going to print it. Why does this convention still rule?
Wouldn't it be smarter to format the PDF page size a wee bit smaller (e.g. 6"x8", more book sized) so it will work better on a iPad sized screen? This would obviate the need for a larger screen and all that entails (power consumption, bulk, faster processor). This would also be friendlier for facing page viewing on laptop and many smaller desktop displays, which tend to be too short to display letter/a4 size at 100%.
Looks like there is an app called iAnnotate PDF that does markup.
Wonder if Adobe ever intends to do a viewer for iPad with all the bells and whistles of annotation, digital signing, password protection etc. But without the ability to view embedded swf of course.
