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Old 09-16-2007, 11:24 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by silkcom View Post
I guess it just seems to me that if a PDF viewer can know what text to show, and where to show it, and what images are where (Etc.), that a converter should be able to keep that same layout (basically), and just word wrap to a smaller screen.
That's precisely the problem. That kind of description of 'what to put where' is a *rasterized* description. There is no way to translate that into a reflowable format. The only possible are of improvement on the existing pdftohtml converter is better image extraction and placement.
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