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Originally Posted by JawadLeLogeur
how bad might the lower resolution be for PDFs
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Anyway, the loss of quality is objective but the evaluation in view of compromise is subjective, so here you can find a PDF which if printed as-is (do not scale, do not interpolate), could give an idea: it contains a PDF page rendered within the 1200x825px and embedded in a 203x139mm frame.
Thing is, I could not find a page that is adequate for generalization - many font sizes etc. The text as rendered is already too big and enlarged over 120% of intended printout, so this sample I picked cannot give an idea of small fonts.
EDIT: to the standard O'Reilly format, I also added an article. Already this may (may) be indicative of the effect. The real challenge may come, for some, for those books that come in tiny.