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Originally Posted by cHex
Semantics? Maybe. But people are claiming the Kindle has no "PDF support," when in fact it displays PDF's exactly as they are formatted.
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It doesn't support internal links & bookmarks, annotations, and zoom, even to the limited level that other e-ink readers do.
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What's really wanted (and not just by the Kindle community) is a way to cleanly convert PDF's to something like DOC or HTML
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... etc. Well, yes, but it's never going to happen. "Simple PDF conversion" would mean that PDFs were made the same way, from the same kinds of source material, and they're not. Image-only PDFs are never going to convert; non-image PDFs will convert differently if they're coming from something with markup than if they're coming from a source that loses its formatting (or never had it) before it became a PDF. Starting with Word, I get different results from "Print to PDF" vs "Convert to PDF"--conversion will tag; printing won't.
PDF isn't a doc format as much as it's a displayable package format; how well it converts depends on what went into the package.
However, Kindles *could* have better support for them--allowing the links to work to make them more navigable, allowing annotations, and at least allowing the rotated-view half-page zoom, if not more specific zoom options.