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Old 05-25-2010, 11:23 AM   #13
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Yeah PDF conversions will never get to thepoint of say LIT or MOBI conversions. But the existing level can be improved significantly by doing context aware line unwrapping. WHich means using things like the statistics for line lengths on the whole page and font size changes, spacing between lines, etc. to detect whether a line should be unwrapped or not.

And by doing all this you get header and footer and multicolumn support for free.
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