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Originally Posted by Xenophon
The different kinds of formats have different strengths and weaknesses. As auto-layout and presentation software gets better, the reflow-able formats will look better and better. As auto-reflow from PDF gets better, that nice hand-optimized layout will degrade less and less for other page sizes. But today, PDF is the right choice for fixed size and nearly hopeless for reflow. And lrf/epub/etc. are decent for reflow, and ugly for fixed-size presentation.
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I'm responding to the portion I bolded and italicised. My response:
Really? It's horrible for reflow? That depends on how the PDF document was created. I have some PDFs that reflow just fine. These are the "Very Short Introduction" series published by Oxford University Press.
If you create a PDF simply from "print to PDF" types of command, it's likely that the reflow will be horrible.