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Originally Posted by taming
It's nice that the SDk can support PDF reflow, but the epub2 standard did not require that device manufacturers program for it. Very few of them chose to do it. My understanding has been (and please correct me if I am not getting this right) that it didn't work all that well for things with large images, illustrations, tables etc. when viewed on smaller devices.
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PDF reflow works fairly well for text only pages. Graphics do not reflow. For most ebooks, reflow is okay but since virtually all the ebooks I'm picking up come in epub versions for which reflow is natural, I've been going that route. Actually, I shouldn't say reflow is natural to epub since epub3 adds support for fixed layout documents. I seem to among a fairly decent sized group whose PDF file tend to be technical and not very reflowable.
When I looked at the Datalogics page for the RMSDK, it mentioned language direction support. The Windows DL reader does not seem to support the epub3 directives required to implement anything other than LTR horizontal text. Arabic and Hebrew display left to right and I'm not sure what it did to a sample document in tategaki (Japanese written vertically with the columns being read from right to left) with furigana save to say that it looked very, very odd and nothing like the display from an epub3 text direction conforming renderer such as Azardi.
Regards,
David