Thread: Why so many different file formats?
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Old 01-02-2011, 05:26 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by DavidKitson View Post
PDF is quite a good format.
PDF is an excellent format for its proper purpose, which is to be a digital representation of a printed page.

However, we're discussing eBook formats here, and PDF isn't an eBook format at all, although it's sometimes perverted into being used as one. Any eBook format has to deal well with different sized screens; PDF, by its very nature, is a representation of a fixed-size page.
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