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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
You're arguing from an end user perspective...
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How can I argue from any other? Most people who use PDFs are "end users." We're talking about consumers using PDFs as ebooks, which is the only perspective I have. I find Acrobat Pro to be useful and easy to use. I have no problem converting and reformating PDFs.
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
The other is presenting the information to computers for processing/extraction/indexing/transformation, PDF sucks for that. And PDF by its very nature will always suck for that.
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Not being a programmer, you'd have to explain your position here a bit for me to fully understand. As a normal user, I have no problem with processing, extracting, indexing, or transforming. Granted, I understand your beef against page images, but I avoid page images whenever possible. I fully agree that page images remove most advantages to ebooks. I like reflowable PDF files, however, and find few disadvantages when compared to other formats. I think different formats have different advantages, however. For plain text, I will use rtf for my Reader. But sometimes I want a specific format (generally something I use for articles I copy from the Internet), which PDFs are good for.