A similarly off-topic question: Why isn't "automatically crop margins" a standard feature on all PDF viewers?
I don't care if it perfectly matches the way the PDF is supposed to look printed out, I just want to read the paper. I can scroll through web pages and flip through PDF pages just fine, but I loathe mixing the two metaphors, so I have to be in "fit page" mode. I'd find entire pages of PDFs perfectly legible on my 11' netbook or 6' e-reader, if only the damned things would crop out all of that wasted blank space and use their entire screens for the content.
No, the zoom feature on most PDF readers is not adequate, because you then lose the ability to progress exactly one page forward and backward at a time (at least, this is the case on every reader I've used). Not to mention, who wants to do that manually every time they want to read a paper?
I don't care if it perfectly matches the way the PDF is supposed to look printed out, I just want to read the paper. I can scroll through web pages and flip through PDF pages just fine, but I loathe mixing the two metaphors, so I have to be in "fit page" mode. I'd find entire pages of PDFs perfectly legible on my 11' netbook or 6' e-reader, if only the damned things would crop out all of that wasted blank space and use their entire screens for the content.
No, the zoom feature on most PDF readers is not adequate, because you then lose the ability to progress exactly one page forward and backward at a time (at least, this is the case on every reader I've used). Not to mention, who wants to do that manually every time they want to read a paper?