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Originally Posted by mikeayers
What are the advantages of using PDF vs some other format?
I'd like to try it out, but I got home but my 4 day old kindle (and my wife)
are out. She might be needing one for xmas.
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- better typographical control and versatility (as good as the authoring app allows), including scripts that Kindle doesn't support (Hebrew, Arabic, Indic, math/music notation etc.), your choice of typefaces etc., hyphenation.
- non textual content (graphs, tables) that can't be reflowed and which automatic conversion cannot handle.
- ability to use vector graphics that remain 'smooth' when zoomed.
- wysiwyg makes it easier to anticipate what the result will look like, even without access to the reading device in question, and page layout programs and PDF are natural partners.
- by contrast, there are no mobi authoring tools that offer wysiwyg. You are basically editing HTML - or something that gets turned into HTML - and have to compile the result to see what it is going to look like on a Kindle (or Kindle previewer app).
I'm not saying PDF is the ideal format for Kindle - far from it - just that it is an important complement to the reflowable formats we have to date.