On 02/02/2021 15.27, Stakanov wrote:
In data martedì 2 febbraio 2021 15:05:04 CET, Anton Aylward ha scritto:
On 2021-02-02 6:14 a.m., Stakanov wrote:
Maybe I need a 30" screen to fully show an A4.
Showing A4
Or a rotated 19" screen.
Actually I can read even small-print "letter"/A4 document using FoxitReader quite adequately on my 17" 1280x1024 without rotation if I scroll,. So i don't see your problem.
OK my endocrinologist has an ultra-wide that can display two pages side by side, one of text, the other graphical, or perhaps data+a form. I can imagine some photo-editing that will make use of an ultra-wide: while GIMP has tear-off menus & sub windows that can use a second, independent screen, other tools like Darktable use attached side panels that aren't 'tear-off', so a wide screen is useful.
I suppose there are some authoring tools, book-level, where you need to keep track of sources, characters, timelines, subplots etc where a widescreen is useful if it can't handle tear-off to a second screen. But that's specific.. Unless you have a specific app in mind, specific demands, I can't see any need for a 30" screen just to read an letter sized, A4 document. After all, how large is that? Two side-by-side full sized letters are what? 18x12, that's a 22" diagonal screen. I'd be more concerned about pixel density.
Well, I've just fired up FoxitReader in 2-up side-by-side of a letter-sized PDF at 65% to get the full sized page both in total view, along with the menu bar and location bar of FoxitReader, and both pages at 10pt are readable on this 19" LG Flatron W1942TQ at 1280x1024. Native mode on this is a little wider.
So I don't see the need for a 30" screen just to view A4 pages.
The problem is the 16:9 format. It was done for people who do not work. Any screen that is not in that format can be very effectively show a A4 size with even only 19" but then the idiots came and did cut the height.
I like the 16:9 format more than the 4/3 of yesteryear :-) One vertical A4 on the left side, and typing something about it on the right side, for example. I can no longer work on a 4/3 screen.
Now, pivot screens are expensive and you have to pivot them. But as there are a lot of people that "game" around with 30" you find convenient screens of that size for as little as 250 $. It is getting expensive if you want like diplay port etc.
Ah, 30" are cheap? That's interesting to know. My current display is 53*30cm, or 61 in diagonal. That's 24" in diagonal.
What I still have to find out is what resolution is the best to allow good reading but no strain to you eyesight.
When I bought mine there was ho choice: 1920*1080.
BTW, when studying mandarin it gets dramatic for what is size. I think this is also a question of quality of the screen.
{chuckle} -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)