Content-aware Scrolling
28Aug07
Here’s a cool idea for reading multi-column text on a screen: scrolling that knows about the path of the text.
There’s also a paper. On a related note, I’ve been trying Tofu for some reading, an OS X app that simply reformats text (plain, HTML, PDF) into justified columns that scroll horizontally for easier reading on a screen. It’s pretty nice, but doesn’t support any form of annotation or highlighting, which is what I really need in a reading app. Maybe there’s a similar Firefox solution I could use in combination with ScrapBook?
Via UIScape.
Tofu doesn’t seem to work with PDFs. As for annotation and highlighting, have you tried Skim?
Also of interest: Live Ink, which supposedly optimally lays out text for readability based upon the sentence structure.
Ryan, I should have mentioned that PDFs only work in Tofu 2.0a2 (linked at the bottom of the page), and it only displays the text, no images or formatting. I’ll have to check out Skim.