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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
If someone says must support pdf, I am thinking that pdf means pdf that cannot be done any other format.
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Right: by PDF I do indeed mean PDF (and not pre-processed into epub, or whatever).
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Pdf has the beauty of having potentially extensively complicated layout, non-conventional text flow, pictures and graphics that must be inserted in and around certain passages of text or it won't make sence.
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You're saying that PDF is designed for a rigid layout and not for text reflow? Agreed.
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Plus you are saying you ARE willing to prepare some of the pdf (e.g. cropping of margins if reader is perfect in any other requirement).
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Yes. More precisely: any amount of crop pre-processing is fine by me, regardless of how well the reader fits the other requirements. Avoiding the need for pre-processing would be nice, it's true.
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So now we can concentrate on your ePub and other requirements.
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Excellent, I'm all ears!
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As you can see from other peoples posts, they also believe that you wanted pdf support more than anything else.
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Sure -- I've fixed up the original message to point out that natural misreading, thanks.
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There still might be a pdf that are mostly text, and should be able to convert into text, but can't b/c no embedded font, text saved as image and so on. That would have to remain as pdf, but might still be readable in landscape on a smaller 6" screen and low resolution of 800x600 (as most 6") by pdf standards.
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Ah, no: I don't anticipate converting many PDF files to epub -- I'm likely to just read them as PDF files I think (hence my non-negotiable requirement for non-broken PDF support, by the definition of "non-broken" I've discussed in previous posts).