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Originally Posted by hreader
Why the dictionary is not working on pdf? There's some hope to the resolution of this bug?
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Originally Posted by hreader
Well, when I read a book in the ereader I expect to use the dictionary regardless of the format, I think it's a lack of a basic feature.
I can say for example that on kindle it works as in the azw/mobi.
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I don't know about azw but mobi is just like Kobo's kepub (or epub) in that it's a load of text formatted in a certain way – whatever way text is formatted, text is still selectable and therefore it's possible to look the selected text up in the dictionary.
PDFs are generally (originally) not formatted text. PDFs are "pictures" of a screen of text. So, the text is not selectable any more because it's a picture instead of the text itself. So if you can't select the text, you can't look the text up.
Having said that, I know that "nowadays" PDFs can be formatted in such a way that selectable text is superimposed on the picture, or however it works, in any case, these PDFs enable text selection. You just need a PDF reader that allows you to do so. And I admit, it would be nice if the Kobo PDF reader could do this. But then still, you'd need the richer PDF format that actually gives you selectable text.