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with   Why Are PDFs Still in Portrait Orientation?  From today’s
mailbag:  Hi Dave! Since you’ve been writing about pet peeves
recently, here’s one of mine: Why are PDF documents still mostly
in portrait instead of landscape orientation?  Be it eBooks,
user guides for software, or anything else that is clearly
intended to be viewed mainly on screen, it mostly comes in
vertical orientation, requiring a lot of zooming in and out,
plus some extra scrolling (if you don’t have one of those fancy
pivot monitors, that is).  I suppose it’s mostly because
programs like Word, InDesign, etc. initially come up with this
page orientation because it’s what we’re used to; when it gets
printed, it’s mostly in portrait mode. But… who prints that kind
of stuff anymore? Most of the PDFs I read never end up on paper,
so it would make sense if electronic documentation came in
landscape orientation. Wouldn’t it?  Yes! I could not agree
more. May the seeds of your idea fi