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Originally Posted by NatCh
But if the PDF can be made to work without getting fancy with it, then doesn't it meet the criteria of what we want (something cross-platform portable that works without a lot of finagling)?
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But it can't be made to work 100% of the time without getting fancy with it.
Again, PDF is page layout format - not an eBook format. It was designed to make the document look the same no matter where it's displayed. The moment that you want to put the same PDF on many different-sized devices, you will have to do "something fancy" with it to get it to display nicely on all those devices.
A PDF formatted for an 8x11" page will not be readable on a current eInk device (unless they make the font size huge). To make it display nicely will
require alot of finagling.
The only real way to correct the problem is to go back to the "source" used to create the PDF and make a PDF that will display nicely - until you get a different-sized device, in which case that PDF may not display correctly.