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Trying to make PDFs on Furaffinity more mobile friendly
2 years ago
I often had the situation as a reader, where I wanted to read or reread a story on here on my phone, maybe in bed, already getting all comfy for falling asleep, maybe while out and about or such and one issue here is this:
Many people, due to FA not being the best about story posting (default TXT is not really particularly good, I want the comment with the basic intro BEFORE the story, not after, thank you) tend to nowadays go with PDF, a format most browsers handle very easily and conveniently, saving you the extra steps of downloading it and viewing the story in some other program.
...but this comes with one downside. Namely, that PDFs with a default A4 / Letter page size are not really mobile friendly.
So, my idea was to switch over to having my PDFs all in A5 size, closer to a typical paper back.
That way, they are pretty decent to read on a typical size phone AND can be read two pages on screen at a time on pc, similar to how you often would have an Ebook Reader set up or to how a good old open book would look like.
I personally think this is working out rather well, but I wanted to hear from anyone who might chance upon this journal what your take is.
Do you like the new format?
Do you dislike it?
Would it be something you might want to adopt yourself?
Let me know!^^
Many people, due to FA not being the best about story posting (default TXT is not really particularly good, I want the comment with the basic intro BEFORE the story, not after, thank you) tend to nowadays go with PDF, a format most browsers handle very easily and conveniently, saving you the extra steps of downloading it and viewing the story in some other program.
...but this comes with one downside. Namely, that PDFs with a default A4 / Letter page size are not really mobile friendly.
So, my idea was to switch over to having my PDFs all in A5 size, closer to a typical paper back.
That way, they are pretty decent to read on a typical size phone AND can be read two pages on screen at a time on pc, similar to how you often would have an Ebook Reader set up or to how a good old open book would look like.
I personally think this is working out rather well, but I wanted to hear from anyone who might chance upon this journal what your take is.
Do you like the new format?
Do you dislike it?
Would it be something you might want to adopt yourself?
Let me know!^^
I also tend to like it best to have both the artist's description (for a summary of the story) and the comments of others' readily at hand and the latter is also curtailed a bit with a very long description.
When the submission is posted as artwork with a description, it also can run into the issue that the distinction between uploads by media type gets a bit blurred, either having stories not show up as stories or, if the uploaded image is not just a fancy graphic of the title with some effects and content markers, make people mistakenly click expecting an art post.
If you want to give my method a shot as well, do have a look at my story uploads here and let me know what you think though, it is really pretty simple since all it does is make a PDF where is page is smaller and thus fits more easily on a phone screen while leaving text size and all that alone.