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GeneralPDF for Mindat articles?
27th Aug 2014 19:08 UTCRonald J. Pellar Expert
Ron
27th Aug 2014 19:15 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
27th Aug 2014 23:52 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
Jolyon
31st Aug 2014 19:01 UTCRonald J. Pellar Expert
Your quote "That's why it's best to convert it to an open format such as PDF" is an excellent endorsement of PDF! So why not for articles?
Ron
31st Aug 2014 20:28 UTCDavid Von Bargen Manager
31st Aug 2014 20:29 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
Articles created on mindat are formatted to be read on screen, not on paper - which in general PDFs are. More specifically this gives us the ability to retarget our article content for display in different ways on different devices. It doesn't really do this well yet but mindat articles could be formatted differently on a cellphone so they are still readable. You can't comfortably read a PDF on a cellphone.
Having said all this, I'd much rather have a PDF article than no article at all. If it's already done in PDF then we do need a way to be able to incorporate it into mindat. The existing article system is not the place for this, but there will be a way of adding things. We have already a PDF archive in "Mindat Books" but this is not open for outside contributions just yet.
I have big plans for the article system - and there may well be room for PDFs within this future structure.
Jolyon
1st Sep 2014 00:10 UTCRonald J. Pellar Expert
Thanks for the update! I am looking forward the implementation of your future plans.
Ron
1st Sep 2014 02:25 UTCWayne Corwin
1st Sep 2014 09:05 UTCJolyon Ralph Founder
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