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Originally Posted by Laurens
True, but PDF is still a very good fit for downloading and reading news offline. Aside from the content being of a temporary nature (meaning that you'll read it once and then delete it, just like you don't keep newspapers around), the documents are for personal use only, since you're not allowed to redistribute a site's content publically anyway. In other words: it doesn't matter that the PDFs are formatted specifically for a particular device for this type of application.
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I agree with that. I'm not worried about the longevity of that. I use Sunrise today for such information and I really don't care if I can't read it tomorrow.
But, as I said, PDF is a page layout format. Your software will have to accept as input the size of the page to be formatted or the page will be unreadable on small devices.
Since this topic started off as a Sunrise question, I assumed that we wanted to stick with the ideas there. Plucker content is viewable on devices of different screen sizes (putting graphics aside for a moment). You can't really create a PDF that works like that. Some people tell me that tagged PDFs can work well, but my experiments with creating tagged PDFs in OpenOffice 2 hasn't shown that tagged PDFs are any different (other than being significantly larger).