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Originally Posted by Bannson
i think that one of the advantages on ebooks is the resizeable fonts and (for the kindle at least) does not greatly effect formatting.
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If the formatting is already typographically poor (and/or mundane), reflowing will not make it any worst. If the formatting is typographically sound, reflowing will necessarily make it worse, whether or not it is discernible to the untrained eye or not.
(And while the change may not be discernible, chances are very good that if shown both the typographically poor and the typographically well prepared page, you would be able to intuitively tell which one is better.)
It simply comes down to the fact that typesetting is not something that computational automation can get right. For any real world text of any meaningful length, it simply isn't possible without the aid of human judgment calls.
Check out this file (
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...1&postcount=22 ) for a simple enough demonstration of what PDF can do. It is made for the Sony PRS-505's (roughly) 9cm by 12cm screen.
I am most curious to find out how it is on your kindle. (Am I correct in assuming it supports PDFs?)
If you have a digital camera or a camera phone and are willing, I would also be grateful for some quick shots of it on your device.
