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Originally Posted by BensonBear
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So I do believe I have some idea about "the difficulty of implementing certain features" at least in this case. That is one main reason why I would just like to see pdf reading implemented not by reflow, but by zooming to the maximum in portrait mode and with easily-implemented tap-to-advance-in-document commands. Such a zoom is probably big enough for most people to read. No panning required for typical books.
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Thank you very much. You show a deep understanding of various facets of the problem of drag and drop as well as the workings of how PDFs are defined and implemented. It also seems you know enough about the KT to have access to one if not actually own one. I just thought it might be non-trivial considering that the subject of all this is 'new features in the Kobo Touch' and there is no example currently of drag and drop of any type of image over another in the current or previous firmware. Didn't mean to make it an broad statement over generic/unknown HW/SW.
I like your idea of tapping to advance. May I suggest that it be taken one step further and allow tap to jump up to 1 screen in that direction (up, down, left, right). Also allow a page forward if already at the bottom right and a right|down tap is registered. Similarly a page back if already at the top left and a left|down tap is registered. This would help alleviate use of drag-drop if the text in the PDF was too small to fit width-wise even in landscape mode and had to be zoomed higher.