PDF reader not really user friendly...

[Hilaire Fernandes]

My initial remark was about what I perceived as an usability problem
after experiencing the reading of PDF books (other problem are lack of
user feedback, do tooltips die in sugar?)).
As any usability problem it should be taken seriously, and if possible
final decision about the design (or redesign of the PDF reader) should
be taken after usability experiences with the final users (ie. kids).
The eBooks aspect of the OLPC notebook is so much important, it
deserves important care.

Hilaire


2008/1/26, Chas. Owens <chas.owens at gmail.com>:
> On Jan 26, 2008 4:00 AM, Hilaire Fernandes <hilaire at ofset.org> wrote:
> > Not sure it has been reported.
> > I looks to me (from update.1) the PDF reader is not user friendly,
> > especially when one want to read book in portrait format, full screen
> > and navigate from page to page (pressing one button to move
> > next/previous page).
> > I found the operation to achieve to this not obvious and not intuitive.
> snip
>
> Yes, the page-up (O) and page-down (X) buttons should move to the
> start of the next and previous pages not scroll a fixed amount.
>
> snip
> > Probably when the screen is rotated, the PDF reader should be set in a
> > special full screen mode with per-page navigation mode.
> > It is a minimum for a decent eBook reader.
> snip
>
> I can't disagree with this more.  Many of my PDFs have massive margins
> that make the text unreadable if I try to fit the whole page on the
> screen.  I will always need a custom zoom level.  You can get a full
> screen view by pressing alt-enter (alt-enter also brings back the
> menu).
>


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