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Originally Posted by jswinden
PDFs were never meant to be used on readers, they were meant to allow people to exchange copy protected documents designed for printing.
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Copy protection wasn't the goal--universal access was. PDF meant you could send your documents to a copy shop to be printed, and not worry whether they had Pagemaker and the same fonts you had, or the newest version of Wordperfect, or whether their print settings for text files had different margins and scrambled the page numbering you'd carefully added. Kept you from having to deal with how different printers dealt with postscript files.
PDF was made as a print-ready format. It was created for "what the designer set up is what everyone sees, regardless of OS or hardware settings."
It works great for that. (Barring some font embedding issues.) It's always going to be troublesome for reflow and viewing in ways the original creator didn't plan for.