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Originally Posted by charleski
Sorry, but this smacks of magical thinking.
Documents with complex layouts that are designed to work at a particular size need a full redesign to work properly at a smaller size. It's possible to specify some basic rules for reflowing content, but that's what you have with PDF right now. If you want a complex document to look right across 10", 6" and 3" readers then you need to include separate layout code for each of those instances. And tripling the amount of labour involved in designing a document costs money, money which it's clear the customers are not prepared to pay.
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Well, I never said it would be
easy.
But most content can be defined by styles, and style sheets can alter the content according to the presentation form factor. In point of fact, very little content cannot be redesigned to be presented in that way. And most of those who insist their material cannot be so altered, as I suggested earlier, simply do not want to try... whether it is out of laziness, or out of a belief that their content is "perfect as presented," and MUST NOT be altered.
We are talking about people who have optimized their presentations for paper, and who simply do not want to have to reinvent the wheel... or to turn their wheel into a jet engine. They'd much rather find a way to have someone else throw their wheel through the air...