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ADVERT I SEMENT
ADVERT I SEMENT
we’re using a standard paper size that will allow us to put the
magazine to print if we wish (more on that later). The new
format also uses a bit more margin at the top for a page number
on each page instead of just on each spread as before.
The new body copy is a slightly heavier serif font and has
more space between the lines, which helps give the page a less
cramped look and makes it easier to read on smaller screens.
That said, the new format does use smaller icons to make the
page just a tad more compact.
Finally, the new format uses 300 DPI images, to allow you to
zoom in and study them even better than before. We’d like to
know if this makes things a problem for some, however, since
this does make the magazine PDF file well over 50 MB where as
before it was often in the 40 MB range.
What these changes allow us to do
This new facelift involves more than just putting a new face on
MRH. There are also some important underlying reasons for the
new changes. Let’s outline them here one at a time:
1. We can now offer an ePub version:
The format changes
make it easier than ever for us to make a reflowable ePub ver-
sion of the magazine available, similar to how our eBooks work.
Apple devices like an iPad or an iPhone display an ePub very
nicely in iBooks, and so does a Mac.
With reflowable, it’s easier than ever to read MRH on a smart-
phone or mini-tablet. You make the text as large as you need, and
the text just reflows as needed around the images, but everything
remains in about the same relative location in the text.
