Re: Odd/Even formatting

Subject: Re: Odd/Even formatting
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 10:50:49 -0700

Looks increasingly old-fashioned if not downright weird.

Unless a lot of users are going to print out and bind pages, it adds no value.

I dumped all holdovers from the print era in 2005.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 7:24 AM, Sion Lane <sion -dot- lane -at- unit4 -dot- com> wrote:
> I'm just wondering if any of you have a good reason for keeping the traditional odd/even page formatting when your only deliverable is a pdf file. It doesn't facilitate online reading in any way, and even if people print out double sided it shouldn't matter, in my opinion.
>
> We are working on a new page layout and I questioned the need for a different right and left page, my boss seemed uncertain so I would ideally like to go back with some resources/examples to back up my intuition.
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