Viewing reports on small devices
Do you want to read an important report or other long document on your smartphone, tablet or dedicated e-reader device?
Typically, you have two choices.
The most common choice is to use a standard PDF reader on your device if you are willing to do a lot of pinching and zooming and scrolling back and forth. However, it can be a struggle to read a report of any significant length.
Happily, if formatted for small devices (Amazon Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android, Nook, Kobo, etc.), viewing and reading reports of any length is not a hassle. You can adjust the font size, background color, line spacing and many other settings to read and comprehend the material without hindrance.
Using a page from the U.S. Department of Energy's recent Quadrennial Energy Review as an example, this short embedded presentation provides examples of how a typical PDF report looks on a smartphone as compared with the same report formatted for e-readers on the same phone. For the greatest realism, view this on your phone:
Typically, you have two choices.
The most common choice is to use a standard PDF reader on your device if you are willing to do a lot of pinching and zooming and scrolling back and forth. However, it can be a struggle to read a report of any significant length.
Happily, if formatted for small devices (Amazon Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android, Nook, Kobo, etc.), viewing and reading reports of any length is not a hassle. You can adjust the font size, background color, line spacing and many other settings to read and comprehend the material without hindrance.
Using a page from the U.S. Department of Energy's recent Quadrennial Energy Review as an example, this short embedded presentation provides examples of how a typical PDF report looks on a smartphone as compared with the same report formatted for e-readers on the same phone. For the greatest realism, view this on your phone:
