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Originally Posted by Moejoe
I think that's the point I'm driving at. If the output becomes good enough and the creation easy enough so that ePub matches (and maybe surpasses) PDF then PDF itself is pointless - unless you do need a fixed size, I suppose.
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PDF will remain incredibly useful for what it was designed for--a print-ready format. That's why publishers are so fond of it. PDF to paper is an easy transition, and when you look at the file, you know exactly what the paper will look like.
And unless there's ever a "scan to ePub" option, PDF won't be replaced in the business world, either. It doesn't matter that those scans are almost unreadable on ebook devices (and aren't great on computer screens, either); they're legible and
stable, and they play a large part in the modern litigation industry.
EPub won't replace PDF any more than HTML editors replaced word processing programs.