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Old 12-11-2010, 10:36 PM   #44
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
More often than not, the PDF wasn't made properly. Export-to-PDF from many programs doesn't create tagged, reflowable PDFs; you get PDFs with a hard return at the end of every line of text.

The real issue is publishers considering PDF as a "looks just like the printed book!" format, instead of treating it like just another ebook format that they'll have to consider how to set up for ebook reading.
As I said... this isn't the PDF format's fault, nor is it a reason to say it's not an ebook format. This is a reason to retrain publishers to create properly-formatted PDFs using proper software.
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