[CESG] Formatting question for docs

[Lux, Jim (US 430E)]

We're looking at some fairly detailed drawings of the process for the yellow book, and the interesting question came up:

If a drawing is very detailed, but not easily readable in a printed version, but *is* readable in a pdf viewer by zooming in, is that acceptable?  (presumes that the raw graphics is a scalable format)
Or, should our documents always be "printed form readable/usable"
I've certainly spent some time reading not so old (1980s, 1990s) standards documents that were scanned from microfilm or paper that are marginally readable, because of the scanning resolution.

I think it's safe to assume that .pdf will be readable via some application or another for decades.

What are folks's opionions?



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