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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sorry - I was in no way at all denigrating Hadrien's stirling work at "Feedbooks" - apologies if that's the way my message came across. Re-reading it I see that it could indeed be interpreted like that, which I certainly didn't intend.
The reason I dislike even "correctly sized" PDFs personally is that you're stuck with the font size that the creator of the PDF thinks is the right one to use. When I use the Reader with the LRF files I create myself, I read most of the time using the "small" font size, but when it's late at night and I'm tired, or I'm reading somewhere with poor light, I switch to "medium" because it's a lot easier on the eyes. I can't do that with PDF!
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Wrong. On Feedbooks, you can easily generate PDF with both the font, and the size that you'd prefer. It only takes a few seconds to set your settings and once it's done, you can select "Custom PDF" on every book and also for the RSS/Sudokus/Newspapers.
It's true that you can't exactly resize PDFs on the fly, but there's good sides too: since you can't reflow the text, the flowing itself is much better with hyphenation support, kerning, better justification etc... and that's exactly what we're improving with our PDF right now: better typesetting.
Feedbooks will support reflowing format too in the future, but currently I'm a bit disappointed with the poor typesetting of such formats (seems like some folks feel the same way:
http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=1256 )