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Originally Posted by detayls
The basic issue here is paper.
Either you or your printer (a human I assume) has a fixed size piece of paper in mind so PDF has layout built-in to use that paper size. This size is known in advance when the PDF file is being created.
An eBook is created to run, not against paper, but in whatever eBook reader it is opened in. All eBook readers have a "page" size that defines their screen, which may change.
In this case the fixed layout of PDF files is actually incorrect.
Epub files fix this by "flowing" into an eBook reader screen pretty much the same way a bottle of beer flows into a glass. The glass defines the shape of the beer, unknown in advance. The same is true of the screen defining the shape of the eBook "page", unknown in advance.
While PDFs are great if you can rely on a fixed page size, they are totally lousy at eBook "reflow" if they even do it at all.
This is why .mobi or .epub files are the best for eBook use.  |
No kidding, but I was responding to his comment that PDF should never ever be used for any reason for anything.