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Originally Posted by ProfJulie
What exactly are you blaming them for? The fact that vendors don't make use of the features that are provided?
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What's the difference between a feature that doesn't exist and a feature that exists but no one knows it exists? Answer: Nothing.
You are correct that much of the blame does go on the authors of the PDFs for not making them tagged. But the facts remain:
- Nearly every PDF-format eBook available out there is not tagged.
- PDF is horribly bloated compared to competing formats, making it a less desirable format for resource-constrained devices. Which makes more sense to read on my Palm: the 250K or 2.5MB? That's a no brainer.
- PDF offers absolutely no benefit over the competing formats.
- PDF is a "dead end" format. Once a document is in PDF, it's extremely time consuming converting it to anything else.
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Originally Posted by ProfJulie
The PDF format has been around for a very long time.
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So has punch cards and paper tape. That doesn't mean it's a useful format today.