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04-06-2014, 03:38 PM (This post was last modified: 04-06-2014 05:31 PM by BarryMead.)
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RE: WP 34S v3.3
My brother uses a kindle every day, and his biggest complaint, is that "Graphical Figures", like charts, tables, diagrams, and photos cannot be enlarged by zooming in. Regular text can, but not graphical figures.

If the wp34s manual were released on kindle it would probably require some special attention to
make sure any graphical figures were appropriately sized prior to release so as to be readable in
the fixed size of a kindle. And "Readability" is a relative thing depending on one's eyesight. Older people tend to need larger text sizes than younger people do.

Additionally most kindles (except the newer fire) are not color but black and white. The wp34s manual makes extensive use of color to encode special meaning to many items in the manual. This color would be
lost to all black and white kindle users. Approximately 75% of kindles in distribution are black and white. Many people prefer the paper-white kindles to the color kindles, because they can read them in bright sunlight, and
because the battery life is about 6 times longer than the color version.

Another complication is that indexes and tables of contents (which refer to page numbers) would not work on a kindle. As you zoom in or out the
kindle re-paginates. There are no "Page Numbers" on a kindle. The equivalent on a kindle is a "PERCENTAGE" of total document length.

This would mean that it wouldn't be a trivial endeavor to publish a kindle version (in my humble opinion).
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WP 34S v3.3 - walter b - 04-06-2014, 06:31 AM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - Leonid - 04-06-2014, 09:10 AM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - walter b - 04-06-2014, 02:08 PM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - anetzer - 04-06-2014, 03:29 PM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - walter b - 04-06-2014, 03:58 PM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - Jonathan Cameron - 04-06-2014, 04:39 PM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - Marcel Samek - 04-06-2014, 06:13 PM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - Eric Rechlin - 04-07-2014, 01:50 PM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - Leonid - 04-06-2014, 04:47 PM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - BarryMead - 04-06-2014 03:38 PM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - Jeff O. - 04-07-2014, 04:22 PM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - Bit - 04-07-2014, 04:51 PM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - Bit - 04-07-2014, 05:07 PM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - nsg - 04-16-2014, 12:24 AM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - walter b - 04-16-2014, 04:19 AM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - RMollov - 04-16-2014, 06:31 AM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - Bit - 04-16-2014, 10:23 PM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - RMollov - 04-17-2014, 06:06 AM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - kusmi - 04-16-2014, 08:33 AM
RE: WP 34S v3.3 - walter b - 04-16-2014, 09:38 AM



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