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102 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 20 Nov 2025 \ parent \ on: Stacker Saloon

Your PDF reader can’t make the document fit your screen?

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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 20 Nov 2025

Sure it fits the screen, but in the most laughable way ever: pdf readers just shrink the whole document page until it fits.

If everyone is reading electronically, why are we even bothering with a static page size?

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102 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 20 Nov 2025
pdf readers just shrink the whole document page until it fits

The built-in PDF reader in my browser (Brave) has two options: fit whole document, or fit width to screen:

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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby 20 Nov 2025

but in neither case does it change the number of words per line. This is my problem.

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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 20 Nov 2025

It's especially hard to read pdf on mobile

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 20 Nov 2025

Ahh, ok

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