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Old 06-09-2009, 03:49 PM   #18
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A PDF can be made to any size device including made for an 6" screen. And when done so, they can look far better than any ePUB/MOBI/LIT.
They can if DRM-free and if the source format is not PDF (which is the hardest to change to a new page size). Feedbooks takes this approach for example. I don't know how far Calibre 0.6.0, and its successors, will push PDF as an output format but it certainly has advantages if you want exact control over what appears on the screen.

What has killed PDF as an ebook format is DRM, which prevents customization. Amazon has half of a good idea with TOPAZ, which contains exactly six font sizes. It would be perfectly possible today to bundle a few (3, say) PDFs with different font sizes into one ebook, either implicitly (define a wrapper format) or explicitly by providing multiple PDF files. This might fit in with many publisher's workflow better than reflowable ebooks.
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