Request for horizontal 16:9 format manuals.

[sc_neo]

I am sure most people do not print but read DCS manuals on their pc, laptop or smartphone. Except for the latter, the standard vertical pdf page layout really isn't very practical at all anymore. Almost all monitors are 16:9 or even wider today, and that vertical format jsut doesn't make any sense. Smartphones and tablets are the exception because you can turn them easily enough. Juck's DCS guides already show how its done properly.

 

Since the F/A-18 manual is not final at this point, i think it would be a good opportunity to either switch to a horizontal format or provide both.

[ouPhrontis]

That'd be quite an undertaking, though I guess there's nothing stopping someone from making that themselves and uploading it to the user repository.

 

Having a 16:9 monitor, I've not felt the need for a landscape manual, that'd be rather odd - in my humble opinion, specifically due to portrait kneeboards, any pages one would want can be printed for a board without modification, just as it is with other modules.

 

Perhaps as a workaround one could open the manual .pdf with opposing pages open, as that'd occupy a 16:9 quite well.

[Rudel_chw]

That’s a beauty of the iPad, its screen isn't 16:9 but 4:3 and it lends very well to portrait book reading ... dont have any trouble at all with the current DCS manuals: