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No need for AI --- I used to work up automated typesetting systems for a previous employer --- feed in the database as a properly tagged XML file, provide all the graphics in a folder, and a couple of typesetting runs later, one had a fully paginated PDF w/ ToC and Index.

The problem is, no one wants to pay for this since no value is seen in such a paginated view --- even if AI could create such a typesetting routine.





Paginated view is stable. Scrollable is not. This hinders spatial memory immensely, but goes unnoticed.

I mean, what I'm after is a page layout that is designed with compactness and readability in mind. Going from a product database to that requires quite a lot.

An example:

https://archive.org/details/mouserelectronic00unse/page/190/...


A printed catalog also provides discovery that no website has ever matched.

Exactly. So, my hope is that AI can rebuild this lost art that is now deemed too expensive.



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