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Originally Posted by Sonist
But, let's talk about reflow, since you deem it to be the great benefir of EPUB. As far a I can tell, you are incorrect about the new Adobe's lack of reflow ability. You can also change font sizes, search, zoom, etc..
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The Desktop Adobe Digital Editions does not reflow PDFs. You can reflow some PDFs with the mobile Adobe Digital Editions. However, it is not currently possible to reflow all PDFs with ADE or any other software. The ones that reflow well are generally the ones that don't have fancy layouts. For example, it is entirely possible to layout a PDF by taking the 1st word of the page at putting it in the top left, then taking the last word on the page and putting it in the bottom right, then do the same with the 2nd and 2nd last etcetera. This would be very hard to reflow but it might look exactly the same on the original page as the simplest version created directly from a text file (which would trivially reflow). I am taking an extreme example, but the point is that PDFs don't have to be reflowable.
On the other hand, the point about ePub is that it is designed to reflow, so there is almost no such thing as a non-reflowable ePub (an ebook entirely of images would not be reflowable).