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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
My position is basically that, for general ebooks, one can achieve enough typographical control using reflowable formats that the advantages of having semantic information make them superior to rendered formats.
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Okay, I'm good with that... reflowable formats are superior to rendered formats. But that doesn't negate rendered formats as "legitimate." By that reckoning, LRF is not legitimate because it is not reflowable. I don't buy that logic.
Reflowable or not (and sometimes it is), PDF is still a useful, functional format for delivering text and graphics content, and in terms of graphics it is in many ways superior to many reflowable e-book formats. Since it fits a niche that other formats do not fit as well, that makes it a legitimate format, at least for text and graphics applications.