Thread: Do you consider PDF to be a legitimate "e-book" format? Why or why not?
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Old 01-21-2008, 06:02 PM   #64
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan View Post
Sure, you can... if it is tagged. I do it on my PDA all the time, no big.

I don't see why the insistence that PDF is so limited. You can set up a PDF to be searchable. You can index a PDF. You can bookmark a PDF. You can tag a PDF, so it becomes reflowable. Why does the "end user" need more than that out of their e-book?

If you have a device that can't handle those features, well, that's the fault of the device/software, not of PDFs. Get a device that will properly run Acrobat, and you'll be good to go.
None of the current eBook Readers support reflow using tagged PDF files so PDF is problematic for them. As I said earlier this is really a software problem, not a format problem. However, some PDF's cannot be reflowed since there really consist of sets of images and it is sometimes hard for the user to know which kind they have.

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