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Originally Posted by ath
For PDF to work *well* on a PDA, it has to be produced with the screen size in mind.
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But if you produced it with a pda in mind, it would look stupid on a pc or laptop and you'd lose one of the main points of pdf, which is to produce something ready formatted for printing.
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Originally Posted by ath
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.
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Both these points are true, but I'm not looking for perfection, but for something which is easily intelligible. In any case, iSilo can do a very good job with tables and it can also resize graphics as required.
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Originally Posted by CommanderROR
a PDf can work well on a small screen if it is reflowable.
Of course some formatting will get lost, but for fiction books that is not too important.
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This also is true, but only for books or documents which are predominantly text. On a Palm handheld PalmPDF, Repligo and PDFtoGo do a good job of reflowing text (though, of course, for DRM ebooks you're forced to use the far inferior Adobe Reader). The big problem is with academic papers, non-fiction books etc with graphics or tables. The majority of which are pdf files or pdf ebooks, and there is no satisfactory way of reading these on a pda, because if you use page view (to see an image of the complete page), the text is far too small to read. If you try using Adobe Reader to convert a pdf academic paper for a pda, it cannot properly distinguish between tables and normal text or between captions to diagrams and normal text and the result can be a complete dog's dinner.