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Originally Posted by rlauzon
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.
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Perhaps more correctly, PDF
originated as a page layout format. As it has become more of a cross-platform standard, and reflow features have been added, it may evolve into something quite suitable for eBooks.
I personally think something like HTML is much better for supporting a wide variety of reading devices, though it too has its limitations. Something in XML would be ideal. But since we have so many documents already in PDF (I too have a stack of journal articles in PDF to read), we need to find good ways to support PDF, if only as legacy content.