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on december 9th, 2012, jon said:
>   You sacrifice the ability 
>   to change fonts on the fly 
>   which is important to some people

a .pdf does not allow the person to change
the _size_ of the text, and that is a factor
far more important to a good many people.

plus, even then, there are a number of other
variables that users _might_ want to control
which can't be changed when they use a .pdf.

it's amusing that _exactly_ one year earlier
-- december 9th, 2011 -- i posted a message
where i shared the first-draft of a checklist
of the variables that readers like to control:

>   http://lists.pglaf.org/mailman/private/gutvol-d/2011-December/008474.html

some of these _can_ be controlled -- at least
in _some_ viewer-programs, using some formats
-- but most of 'em can't be changed in a .pdf;
they're frozen in the concrete of that format...

that's why we should give end-users the ability
to make a .pdf customized to their preferences;
unfortunately, i think the la/tex learning-curve
is too steep to suggest it as our path for that.

but it's nice jon can make a .pdf that _he_ likes!

-bowerbird

p.s.  i wouldn't put jon's versions out in public,
however, since there's no need to introduce _more_
one-off snowflakes to an already-confused situation.
just more crap the future will have to analyze and
toss aside once it decides it must sort it all out...

p.p.s.  my dad came from a family that had 12 kids --
6 boys and 6 girls.  and my mom came from a family
with 12 kids: 6 boys and 6 girls.  what are the odds?

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