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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Is Adobe pushing this reflowable PDF form at all? I've only come across it in passing, but are they positioning this in any way as a viable e-book format? I know they've adopted ePub, and that's a good move, but I have doubts they'd just let PDF rot and not try to maximise its, already, substantial exposure.
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I have no idea. In the past I avoided pdf's like the plague but now with the 700 and its excellent pdf support I do not mind them; for some reason authors and publishers love those whenever they send out e-arc's - to get the "print" feel I suppose, and I stopped fighting "with the windmills" to try and get another format.
I just take the pdf, hope it reflows nicely, put the proper metadata - you would be surprised how many pdf's from authors/publishers, though not for sale true, have no or wrong metadata - and get reading
Of course even more annoying is when publishers insist on paying for first-class mail and a print copy since they do not want to send out pdf's...
In my experience it's much easier to social-watermark a pdf (removable true, but why should I bother ???) than send print arcs and see them popping up on eBay...