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Old 01-08-2011, 03:24 PM   #11
rkomar
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Originally Posted by rkomar View Post
Reflow is useless for these types of documents, it seems to only be good for pure text documents. Figures are not shown, and captions, equations and code snippets are horribly botched.
I wanted to add something to this comment. I use LaTeX to generate my own PDFs. Unfortunately, the software doesn't support making the documents reflowable. It's not that the developers aren't aware that this would be desirable; they know that many people are producing PDFs for mobile readers and that reflowing is an important feature. The problem is that they haven't been able to figure out how to properly handle things like equations, tables, figures,... which are essential to the mostly scientific crowd that uses LaTeX. If the problem is this hard for those writing the software for generating the PDFs, I can imagine that it would be similarly hard for those writing the software to display reflowed documents. So, I don't blame PocketBook/AdobeViewer/pdfviewer for not properly reflowing scientific documents, as I doubt that anybody else does a great job either.
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