[projectaon] Re: projectaon Digest V7 #122
- From: "David Davis" <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:01:47 +0100
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From: "Jonathan Blake" <jonathan.blake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 7:31 PM
To: <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [projectaon] Re: projectaon Digest V7 #122
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:14 AM, David Davis <feline1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
yep.
although using two pages in the first place was just due to the
limitations
of paper books.
PDF gives us the ability to implement a superior solution: i.e.
presenting
the map on a single page, of double width.
If there isn't an easy way to do this in Latex for a single book,
then (as Ingo noted), the fairly trivial solution would be to produce a
PDF
of the map separately, then insert that page into the PDF with a program
that can edit PDF (is there a function equivalent to Adobe Acrobat on the
linux platform?)
How would that affect someone who wants to print it out?
A reasonable question.
The formally correct answer is "That is the job of the printer driver".
Now I'm sure you'll agree, never in your life have you ever tried to send
something to a printer,
and it's come out all munged up, printed at the wrong size, cropped in the
wrong way, or anything like that ;)
Because all printer drivers are perfect :)
lol
but /shrugs/
there's not much any document can do about this.
A PDF declares it's page size to the printer driver.
And the printer declares its available paper size to the printer driver.
And the printer driver is meant to make sensible decisions, such as letting
you
tick boxes saying "chose paper size automatically" and "shrink to fit"
and "auto-rotate and centre", and it does the rest.
Your mileage may vary :)
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