"Technical aspects of margins justification.".  Retour.

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The aim of the operation is to provide the kind reader with downloadable documents as close as possible to the paper original. Example in the Word file :


On the left, the old presentation. On the right, the new.

Here is the display of the corresponding PDF file :



However, there is a small drawback, which is the insertion of more or less large blanks between words. The explanation lies in the fonts used.
Indeed, from one font to another, the dimensions of the characters vary. Thus, by changing the font, it is not possible to obtain a line length identical to the original, which produces this effect.
When composing a page, the printer filled in his line (possibly by inserting small wedges), so that the lines were identical in length.

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Some documents have notes in the right and left margins. Example in this Word file :


On the left, the old presentation. On the right, the new.


However, the Word macro for converting to a PDF file does not exactly reproduce the justification in front of the notes in the right margin. View of the product PDF file :



Despite this small drawback (the number of documents with notes being small), it appears that the presentation better reflects the appearance of the paper book.

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