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Originally Posted by Peto
I totally agree with Solitaire. Nothing but PDFs on my Reader. The edition and final result is so much richer.
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Font control is one of the main factors that pushed me to choosing PDF over RTF. One of the most frustrating problems (one of I've spent hours trying to solve without success) that I've come across with RTF files on my reader is that I can't reliably get it to display my text in the font type (serif, san serif, or monospaced) that I choose. Often, I get san serif type regardless the font of in the original RTF document.
It would be fine with me if my text rendered reliably in the appropriate default font (any serif font will render in the default serif font, and likewise with san serif and monospaced). But sometimes it will display in the right font type, and other times it won't. Another post mentioned using specific fonts to get the correct default font type (such as using Times New Roman in the original document to get the default serif font), but it didn't work for me.
With PDF, my ebooks will render with the specific font that I want. For example, I prefer the following fonts: Georgia (serif), Century Gothic (san serif), and Cumberland (monospace). With PDF, these fonts render perfectly on my reader.
Although I lose much of the ability to increase the size of my text with PDF files (the recently added ability to reflow PDF text does it in a way that I don't like), it's not much of an issue with me. I just make sure that my text is large enough at the smallest size for easy reading. I've found that a base font size of 14 points is large enough for comfortable reading on my reader. If I need it larger, I just increase the font size in the original document and then regenerate the PDF.