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Old 10-14-2011, 12:19 PM   #7
jswinden
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Quite simply because there IS no "textual information" in a PDF document. A PDF document doesn't contain paragraphs, sentences, and words. All that it contains is drawing instructions of the form "draw this shape at these coordinates".

A PDF document is essentially a series of instructions for drawing a picture on a sheet of paper. It's not a book.
Good point. PDF documents are basically page layout documents. The kind of documents we used to create in PageMaker or Quark Express. The kind of documents that lend themselves well to brochures, posters, et cetera.

Electronic readers (E Ink, computers, tablets, phones, etc.) work best with reflowable, dynamic text.

PDF documents by nature are page layout, static output typically designed for one specific page size.
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