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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
PDF is radically different than the first day it came out. Somewhere midway between the beginning 1993 (?) to now, we have PDF able to have an OCR text layer for scanned images. This wasn't possible at first. Commenting on PDFs also previously was not possible. Now it is.
PDF continues to change.
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Originally Posted by =X=
I don't think this is true. What I suspect is Adobe will just make their Digital Editions API more robust and handle PDF reflow better. PDF has a lot of built in features (text entry, annotation, security, etc...). I don't see PDF going away.
It's also a format they own and they will fight hard to keep that a dominate format.
Though I would not mind if PDF did go away.
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I'm really interested in how you think it might go with PDF. At the moment it annoys me to no end when I get hold of an A4 sized PDF and try to read it on my Sony.
Do you think there might be a time when PDF's, no matter the size of the original document, will have a true reflow capability across the board? (without the original layout being messed up). Is there a possibility that PDF will become the 'only' format for various types of electronic documents? What do you think the future holds for PDF as say compared to ePub and other formats?
I only ask because I don't know enough about PDF and the possibilities of that format.