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Originally Posted by tompe
And? ePub is intended for re-flow. pdf was not designed for re-flow.
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I agree. Most of the "problematic" PDF's were produced in the era when the target media was paper or (page organized) window on computer screen. When nobody thought of mobile devices and smaller screens as targets.
However, we have to recognize that there is
- a historical tendency to "control the last pixel on the target media"
- that not so small group of end-users respond well (see enthusiasm with which ahi's eInk screen targeted PDF's were received) to such practices.
I think that problems associated with PDF can be attributed more to that clash of goals ("should show up 'good-enough' on maximum number of target platforms" vs. "should show 'perfect' on at least one platform, 'best effort' on the rest") than to the format itself.