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Originally Posted by HarryT
As I understand it, though (and please correct me if I'm wrong), the fundamental problem with PDF files is that they basically consist of a series of page "images"; the pages can't be "re-flowed" as you can do with RTF or text files. Surely in that case, the best you could achieve would be to have the Reader provide a "viewport" that you could "scroll around" over the page. Do you think that would provide a satisfactory reading experience?
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I know nothing about to internals of the PDF format (its made of bits right
) - I thought there was some separation between layout and content? There must be a way of re-flowing that'd work with a fair amount of layouts. Maybe perform OCR on the PDF pages and convert to text (horrible horrible)? I've played around with PDFRastafarian and it did end up turning a PDF into a series of images. Is RTF with embedded images a re-flow friendly format?
Scrolling around is definitely pain inducing - it brings back traumatic memories of trying to read on PDAs.
We need to move everything to Latex