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Old 10-18-2011, 07:29 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by jswinden View Post
This whole PDF discussion thing is getting pretty old. Adobe designed PDFs to be printed, not read on E Ink readers. They designed PDFs over 20 years ago for the purpose of being able to exchange secured documents digitally without worrying about unauthorized editing of those documents. For example, a lawyer could send a contract to a client via email. PDFs were never designed for our viewing pleasure!!! True, Adobe has tried to update PDF over the years, but it is still THE WORST form of document for reading on an electronic device.
Not quite. PDF was created to allow you to send a document to someone to be printed so you don't need to have the same program/fonts that was used to create the document. It wasn't about not being able to edit. It was about being able to duplicate the document on paper so what I send you will look the same on paper as when I print it from whatever program created it.

PDF was never designed to have the information needed to convert it to another format and it never will. Basically, if you have a PDF, the only way to convert it is to pick a program to convert it and then A/B compare every single pixel/letter/punctuation/etc. and also do any format fixing that needs to be done. Then you'll have your conversion. There is NO program that can convert a PDF of any reasonable size error free.
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