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Originally Posted by charlieperry
The essence of my rant is that pdf isn't really an ebook format and it shouldn't be sold as such.
Maybe there's a simple solution to this problem in which case I'd love to hear it.
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As mentioned, it's possible to add tagging to PDFs so that they reflow, but it often isn't done.
In some cases, you wouldn't want it to.
A PDF is supposed to accurately represent a
printed page. Indeed, a PDF is likely what will go the the printer as the electronic copy they will feed to an imagesetter to make plates for the presses. If your design specifies multiple columns and inset illustrations with text flowed around them, reflow is the last thing you want it to do.
Stuff gets issued as ebooks in PDF format because those issuing them haven't considered the case of the reader trying to read them on a handheld device, The assumption is that the PDF will be read on a desktop or laptop, or sent to a printer.
I can read PDFs on my PDA, but don't get them unless there is no other electronic format available for the content, for precisely the reasons you state. I may also attempt to convert them with Mobi Creator. How well this works depends on the PDF. Single column PDFs with in line illustrations convert fairly well. Others are generally hopeless.
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Dennis