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Old 06-28-2010, 01:39 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by Doug Pardee View Post
However, no dedicated e-reader device is very good at dealing with PDFs. Reflowing the pages gives decidedly funky results, because each line is reflowed separately. You get headers and footers mixed in with the regular text, and line breaks and page breaks in inconvenient places.
It is my understanding that the problem is inherent in the PDF format. It was set up as a page-layout format, not as a re-sizable ebook format. Anytime you try to reflow a PDF the results are likely to be ugly.
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