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Originally Posted by ath
If I use PDF for book-work, it may be a useful benefit to be able to look at it on a PC screen. But using a PDA is not of the slightest importance. It's like trying to drive in a 9in nail with a pocket hammer -- it's something you attempt only where there are no other alternatives, and once you have got rid of the initial frustration, it's something you realize is not going to work anyway.
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I guess that's where we differ. Believe it or not, I actually find it easier to read books on a pda than on a laptop or pc, especially using autoscroll in iSilo or Plucker. Even at home I would use the pda in preference to a pc. Not for Internet work, true, but for books and documents yes. And the other nice thing about a pda is that I spend a lot of time on trains and buses. My pda is always with me, so I can get out the pda and read an article or a book at the drop of a hat. And I don't have to find where I left off, like on a pc.
So I think the ideal is a format that can be easily adapted for a pda if that's what the user wants. Would it not be possible to have a pdf file optimised for printing/reading on a pc where there are tags showing what is text, what is tables etc, so that a conversion program could quickly adapt it for a pda?