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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
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 ? Come down back on earth.
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1) There will be standard screen sizes. Fixed layouts will be design for those with a regular and a large print font size. I see that being no more than 2 or at most 4 versions. (With additional font sizes being possible via reflow.)
2) The reflowed PDF's hyphenation in the worst case scenario will be no worse than that of any other reflow technology. And no, the existing hyphenation won't stay with tagged PDFs. Are you making things up as you go along?
3) You don't seem to know/understand the difference between proofreading and checking pages for typographic integrity. Proofreading is about content, and it is time-consuming. Checking for typographic integrity, depending on how demanding you are, can be fairly quick--4 editions, done with the right tools, should take significantly less time than the proofreading the content [underlying all editions] did.
4) You're harping on about publishers neglecting eBooks today. Irrelevant for a discussion about the future. Early printed paper books were full of errors to. Today they aren't. eBooks will go the same way.
As for coming down to earth... the answer to the problem you perceive might be for you to do a bit more research into the topic that you are wisely commenting upon.
- Ahi