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Old 10-07-2010, 06:23 PM   #8
Jack Tingle
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Originally Posted by jswinden View Post
Totally agree!

varmemester, you should direct your energy and disgust at Adobe. They designed PDF and they failed to update it to adequately work with smaller devices. The crap really doesn't even work well with larger monitors attached to computers. It was designed during the print and read it era of the early 1990s and is too antequated to work well in the 2010s.
Whoa! That's not fair. I'm not now, nor have I ever been a fan of either Adobe or PDF, but don't just dump on them.

Adobe designed it for document portability among desktop and laptop computers. It was intended to be a secure, universally printable version of of a Postscript printer control file. For that, it works fine.

Over the years, various people have used it for a lot more things. To help with these Adobe added tagging to make it friendlier for small screens. Tagging works fine, when the creator uses it.

If you want to criticize someone, criticize the creators who don't tag, and who don't consider their customers' needs. Adobe will someday answer for many sins. PDF's unsuitability as an ebook format isn't one of them. (Some of their salesmen and flacks, OTOH, might have some questions to answer.)

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