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Device friendly viewing

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Mon, 2014-04-07 08:59
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doublethink doublethink's picture
Device friendly viewing
Just wanted to mention and ask something - the EP core book has a (mostly) two column layout, which turns out to work really nicely when viewing with a device, such as my android phone (landscape) or nexus 7 tablet (portrait or landscape). So, bravo! Is that a deliberate design, or is it just a fortunate coincidence that the narrowness of the columns makes it easy to view on a phone? Essentially, I pinch-zoom my view onto a column, then scroll down to read decently sized text. Zooming out again to navigate around, look at pictures etc. As an aside, I'd also like to mention the kindle app as an excellent PDF reader. I searched and tried several others, but kindle's rendering speed is unmatched. Cheers!
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Mon, 2014-04-07 11:06
bibliophile20 bibliophile20's picture
Two columns is pretty much
Two columns is pretty much industry standard for most rpg books, so probably fortunate coincidence. (I'm actually having a hard time thinking of an RPG that doesn't have a two column format in the books)
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Mon, 2014-04-07 14:06
AdamJury AdamJury's picture
I definitely think about
I definitely think about tablet-sized screens when I work on any book. A bit less so when Eclipse Phase was created (Pre-iPad! Eons ago!), but it's always on my mind. That said, print is still the dominant distribution method (in terms of dollars, so I aim to do the right thing for print, and that lead to a lot of the design decisions in Eclipse Phase. Note that we just released an ePub version of part of the core book, with the rest on the way: http://eclipsephase.com/time-eclipse-epub-now-available
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