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Originally Posted by VillageReader
Too inflexible without major effort on the part of publishers to reflow text & images to a readable size appropriate to the device you are using.
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Actually I think this is a problem for the eBook Reader devices to solve, not the publishers. Occasionally a PDF will be impossible to read on a smaller device but it is not hard to publish reflowable eBooks. The problem is that very few readers support reflowable documents at all. Hopefully this will change with the Adobe/Sony effort shown at CES but it needs to be available on all PDF readers. As a matter of fact I believe it can be argued that if a eBook reader below 8" should have to support reflow to even claim it can read pdf. Once reflow becomes available then we can revisit the idea that eBooks can be in PDF.
Scaling images is related to reflow but can generally be treated as a separate problem since you can turn reflow off to see the images. For truely good results the image rescaling should be considered as well during the reflow.
Adobe has some work to do even on their own DE product.
Dale