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Originally Posted by jgray
Why is it that none of the PDF reading software has an option that lets you display a full page without the whitespace margins? This alone would make reading a PDF on smaller screens much easier.
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I'm not sure that's even possible with an untagged PDF file. (Tagging adds additional info, but if it's tagged, you wouldn't have that problem.)
"Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout 2D document ... that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics which compose the documents." --
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdf
The assumption in pdf was that the page was the essential unit of a document, so the files are paginated. Otherwise PDF is "just" tokenized and compressed Postscript. You get the bulk of a paginated form, with the sloth of PS! The best of all possible bad worlds, IMO. The whole house of cards teeters back in history to print drivers for the original Mac. (Actually, a bit farther back than that, but the Mac was the big thing.)
I almost never use PDF if there's any alternative.
Regards,
Jack Tingle