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Originally Posted by BasilC
PDA's might be able to "understand" PDF files, but there's no way that they can display them satisfactorily if they include images or tables, whereas with html you can convert a document in iSilo, Sunrise or HandStory and be able to read both text and tables.
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For PDF to work *well* on a PDA, it has to be produced with the screen size in mind.
That is true for HTML, as well: a table designed to look good on 800 width, will not look good on a PDA, especially not if the table cells are 'largish', with lots of text. And some texts, particularly those involving sesquipedalian words, looks ghastly on a PDA.
I suspect the idea of being able to reuse text/web content on a PDA without any modification is to a large extent bogus. (Though my level of standard is very high: possibly needlessly so. I don't accept badly hyphenated text, for instance.)