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Old 04-12-2010, 05:38 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Robertb View Post

Yes, PDF is a part of Adobe Digital Editions. Supposedly this is because PDF IS, in effect, a photograph. This allows photocopying of printed books to make eBooks. That is less expensive but not nearly optimal. You are very limited as to what you can do with a photographed document.

Sorry, but I don't think that's quite right Robert. Yes, you can make a pdf out of scanned images, but the more usual re-flowable pdf has it's origins in the postscript language as I understand it.
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