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Posted by JasonE
Jan 14, 2011 at 03:35 AM
https://sites.google.com/site/beyondthepdf/home/program-draft
I wonder what Adobe thinks of this conference.
JasonE
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 17, 2011 at 05:16 PM
JasonE wrote:
>https://sites.google.com/site/beyondthepdf/home/program-draft
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This is interesting stuff, with lots of implications for outliner software, especially the ones that want to target scientists and academics. These efforts to overcome the PDF format could change fundamentally how science journal papers (and possibly e-books) are written and consumed. Thanks for posting it.
Posted by quant
Jan 17, 2011 at 07:53 PM
Adobe is probably having a good laugh ...
“The NGP format is designed to retain traditional elements ... bla bla. The reader may also customize their reading experience by selecting alternative text and background color themes.”
Are they real scientists? Changing background color themes? This is supposed to be a sample paper in a new format:
http://zfishbook.org/NGP/journalcontent/FunctionalEvalPaper/NGP2.html
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Posted by Cassius
Jan 17, 2011 at 11:42 PM
Well the article graphic is not as bad as PowerPoint which I liken to the illuminated manuscripts of the middle ages when noblemen would pay scribes to make the manuscripts pretty so they could show them off, even though they could not read. Today PowerPoint presentations (and perhaps this new “medium”?) is designed to please management which hasn’t a clue about the content.
Posted by quant
Jan 18, 2011 at 12:23 AM
Cassius wrote:
>Well the article graphic is not as bad as PowerPoint which I liken to the illuminated…
not so sure, they managed to use 3 types of fonts on the initial image, how much more ugly can it be?
http://zfishbook.org/NGP/journalcontent/FunctionalEvalPaper/images/title_image.jpg
and the fish picture in the middle ... I thought it was supposed to be a scientific article not an infant picture book