Thread: Do you consider PDF to be a legitimate "e-book" format? Why or why not?
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Old 01-21-2008, 06:16 PM   #65
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
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.
That is the big problem. You need another extension for these kind of files that are suitable for a reader. So they are not pdf files anymore in that case. They are a subset of all possible pdf files.
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