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goblinbox · 01-12-2010, 02:37 AM

The PDF format, IMO, is for printing. It does nothing else well.

Oh, wait. Lemmie take that back. It's a nice format for submitting one's résumé when job hunting online.

But other than those two things, it's a non-wonderful format for actually electronically encoding any kind of data!

I have no idea why any ebooks were ever offered in PDF format beyond the publisher's ignorance and/or laziness of word-friendly formats. Word wrap, hello?

01-12-2010, 02:37 AM	#8
goblinbox *****istratrix Posts: 27 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Walla Walla, WA Device: K2, iThing	The PDF format, IMO, is for printing. It does nothing else well. Oh, wait. Lemmie take that back. It's a nice format for submitting one's résumé when job hunting online. But other than those two things, it's a non-wonderful format for actually electronically encoding any kind of data! I have no idea why any ebooks were ever offered in PDF format beyond the publisher's ignorance and/or laziness of word-friendly formats. Word wrap, hello? Last edited by goblinbox; 01-12-2010 at 02:39 AM. Reason: Realized the thread is older than God.