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Originally Posted by ahi
Presumably Microsoft Word quality hyphenation for English, or English and a few other major languages... or English hyphenation regardless of language.
In other words... a broken product.
And the point of the hyphenation problem is that unknown words have the very real ability to break the software's ability to typeset things in a visually acceptable way. Not to mention that incorrect hyphenation of words is worse than no hyphenation at all.
Perhaps the chasm between PDF and reflow advocates is due to the latter camp caring about the quality of their eBooks far less than they are willing to admit.
- Ahi
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Or maybe having enough technical background to realize why pdf can't really be used there ?
If you say the programmatic hyphenation can't work, how can you possibly relfow pdf ? Worse, the "old" hyphenation will stay.
Multiple version like you want ? That's a lot of version if you want to really accommodate everyone, all of them, according to you, should be proofread. Do you really think publishers are going to proofread that many versions ? When they won't bother doing the job even once ? (and they should !) Come down back on earth.
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That said, I don't think PDF is viable as an ebook format. The very things that allow accurate reproduction of the printed version work against automatic reflow (pagination, custom fonts, and font sizes).
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Thank you !