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Originally Posted by tompe
Which tools are you referring to?
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There are hundreds of PDF readers, PDF creators, and PDF converters on the market. Many are free and lots are cheap. They all claim to work but often they do a poor job in the real world.
The creators don't support tags, many only produce images instead of real text, and some don't even support TOC or metadata. Most don't linearize the data or compress it properly.
The converters often convert to images or text with all formatting lost. Some mishandle images or can't handle them at all.
I agree that PDF is complicated and made more complicated by all the various purposes it is trying to accomplish. For example there is a archive specification for PDF that requires embedding all fonts in the file and no compression. This improves its quality as an archive for future use years from now but certainly is not optimum for eBook use. PDF is also a page layout system and an eDocument system, a print substitute and many, many other applications.
Dale