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Originally Posted by rlauzon
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).
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True. Cross-device viewability goes out the door by choosing PDF. Even if they did work as advertised, tagged PDFs are not supported by the PRS anyway, so that's not even an option. Also, converting and formatting HTML into a good-looking PDF requires layouting to be done in advance, which is an order of magnitude more difficult than creating a relatively simple Plucker document. Anyway, it's going to be an interesting problem to tackle.