Thread: Do you consider PDF to be a legitimate "e-book" format? Why or why not?
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Old 01-21-2008, 06:59 PM   #66
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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.
If a PDF is tagged (i.e. it is reflowable) that means it's basically two documents. A "rendered" version that has all the typographical niceties of PDF and a tagged version that supports reflow and has a subset of the features of HTML. The tagged or reflowable version will not support the nice features of rendered or untagged PDF. In fact, it will not even support the features of HTML+CSS. So with a tagged PDF what you get is a file that is inferior in terms of "rendered layout" to an untagged PDF and that is inferior to HTML+CSS as a reflowable format. So why bother with tagged PDFs?
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