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Old 05-09-2008, 11:28 AM   #152
ProfJulie
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Originally Posted by Lemurion View Post
The problem is that PDF is not an easily understood or read format for anyone with a portable device. The small screens on portable devices make reflowable documents a must, and PDF does not reflow well if at all.
Old articles and other documents that are really nothing more than scanned images that are in PDF format don't reflow at all and are not suitable for a pocket pc. Technical books that include a lot of pictures, diagrams and tables don't translate well to a small screen, but I imagine that would be the case no matter what format it might be in unless there was some custom code in the background to handle such things (I created a PDF and Mobipocket book that included quite a few pictures and used custom coding in both formats to handle the pictures).

But every book I've read so far on my Pocket PC reflows to fit the screen just fine and I've had a very positive experience reading PDF books on my Pocket PC.
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