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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sorry to sound like a "broken record", but PDF IS NOT AN EBOOK FORMAT  . |
Nor good for reading on a computer, although it's more tolerable.
It's convenient for PRINTING (which is what it was created for), and a great way to make sure the reader is getting exactly what the author sent. But PDF is supposed to be an end-result format, not adjustable to anyone's particular settings or needs.
(I love PDFs. I do lots of stuff with them. One of the things I do with them, is throw the text into Word and reformat it into a shape I want to read, depending on what I'm reading with, and re-output into a new PDF. I have layouts for onscreen, printout-save-paper, printout-into-spiralbound, SonyPRS, half-page booklet, and a couple of other obscure uses. I twitch every time I hear about someone stuck reading PDFs in whatever format some publishing company came up with, as those are generally designed to mimic trade paperback layouts, which are awful onscreen.)