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Originally Posted by Amalthia
p.s. sorry if I seem so negative about PDF. It's just I really don't like PDF for reading online let alone my e-ink device. So I'm rather biased against it to start off with. So far I've found for online reading HTML is the most pleasant experience (assuming no pink text and black background)
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I adore PDFs... as stable, print-ready or single-purpose-view formats. I'm still not used to reading them on a screen. I've been converting to PDF for my new Sony PRS, but that's because Calibre confuses me (and seems to have problems with some pictures) and line breaks for poetry and such get all wonky with the RTFs, and PDFs I can control, and am comfortable adding bookmarks to.
I can make 3.5x4.8 (roughly) pdfs for my Reader. And letter-sized PDFs for print. And landscape-letter, 2-column, 15-pt text with 1/4" margins and keep-lines-together paragraphs for reading on screen. And so on. I do think it's silly to expect everyone to be content with a single format of PDF, and what works well for print is not the best layout for the screen.