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Originally Posted by WillAdams
- second, .pdfs need to have internal tagging so that _under user control_ they can be re-flowed at need, or read audibly by a screen reader &c. --- note that this includes additional manual formatting to indicate break points which must not be allowed, as well as suggestions on where breaks are allowable
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Reflow ? it's more of an hack. Pdf is not meant to be reflowed. If you do that, pdf won't be pdf anymore.
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Granted, for straight text, w/ a simpler format, one can achieve a very usable result just by tying together words strategically w/ non-breaking spaces and setting sensible defaults, but it would be terribly limiting if ebooks were to adhere to the limitations imposed by such --- there was a time when writers would naturally switch from writing to drawing and back in a given text and ebooks should allow such flexibility.
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ePub can use images, different fonts, tables. Html and css allows for almost anything.
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- First, .pdfs need to be available at size(s) which are optimized for screen size(s) / proportions
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Once again, the publishers won't proofread one e-book. So asking them to proffed that many version would be suicide.