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Originally Posted by tompe
Well, they have designed the format so I think it is their fault. When I read about it a couple of months ago I got the impression that the format is not so easy to parse and handle. You could have designed it differently in a way that stimulated third parties to write good applications for it but that was not in Adobes interest when they designed the format.
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What exactly are you blaming them for? The fact that vendors don't make use of the features that are provided? The fact that people who generate PDF files don't understand the importance of tagging the file to make it accessible on different devices? I don't follow that logic.
The PDF format has been around for a very long time. It has changed (more features introduced) over time to address new uses. How can Adobe be blamed if third parties are not stimulated to write applications to use these features? We, as consumers, have quite a lot of power, don't you think? If we press the developers of these devices to give us this functionality, do you think they will be motivated then?
Before this thread, many of the readers here probably didn't even know that PDF files could be used on the current batch of ebook reader devices if only the developers would add the functionality to their respective PDF reader software.....