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I refer you to my earlier remark.
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Oh right, yes, when you admitted you were early teens. Sorry, that dosn't get you a pass from me, when you make authorative statements as you have, they get examined.
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One side is trying to desperately defend the current broken state of the eBook market by pointing out the myriad possible workarounds and insisting that only formats that will forever continue to permit such workarounds are viable.
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Well yes, the side of the argument is trying to insist that the only way to proceed is to shackle ebooks to the limits of print books, and the only workaround to multiple screen sizes is to have as many different, seperately proofed, documents for each of them.
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The other side is trying to point out that the very need for workarounds is a sign of careless neglect on the part of publishers and will eventually need to be remedied, regardless of how it impacts people's ability to poorly tweak their eBooks.
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Completely. The ADE renderer needs drastic improvement, or another switched to, and the ePuB standard needs to be driven fowards. Nice to see the agreement for once.
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However if the pro-PDF crowd get its way, there's no reason to assume that technology would not develop to accommodate those who prefer dynamic layouts.
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Quite right, there's no reason or need to assume, the history of the PDF format makes it quite clear that it has no real possibility whatsoever of it happening, and Abobe's effective abandonment of the development of the PDF in favour of ePuB is evident.