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>Reading From the Monitor Instead From Paper</TITLE
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TITLE="Saving Consumables (Paper, Ink, etc.)"
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>Chapter 4. Saving Consumables (Paper, Ink, etc.)</TD
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>Reading From the Monitor Instead From Paper</H1
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> Or use <B
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>less</B
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>xless</B
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>/<B
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> as a viewer instead of printing. You can view PostScript documents with <B
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> and view PDF documents with either <B
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> or <B
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>). Ask yourself, do you --really-- need a hardcopy each time you decide to print something out.
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> What are the reasons why people don't read from the monitor:
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Reading is slower up to 30 percent, see <A
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>. The speed can be improved by better hardware (e.g. TFT display, greater screen, though this is against the other below to take smaller CRTs) and better display software (type-1, t1lib, truetype, freetype).
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Paper seems better organizable and more secure to some people. I suppose this can be treated by better software (e.g. Linux) and hardware, too.
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>
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> Some people use handheld PC (e.g. PalmIII, Newton Message Pad, Psion 5) to carry around documents to read rather than printing them out.
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