Ebook for Kindle with pictures/graphics???

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by geekmaster

Although your PDF knowledge is probably vastly superior to my own, it does not mesh with what I understand about PDF. According to (what I remember from) the PDF specs, PostScript instructions are used for page layout and vector art. And PDF files can contain embedded fonts used to render TEXT when it is being displayed. Unless the displayed content consists of pre-rendered text made up of vector artwork, it makes no sense to embed fonts. What are the fonts USED for if the text has already been converted to pre-rendered lines and curves?

The font is indeed used by the PDF drawing instructions. What I'm saying is that the PDF page doesn't contain the letter "A", for example; it contains PostScript code which says "draw glyph number 65 from font such-and-such at coordinates (615, 423) on the page". This is done for each letter individually, and the drawing instructions may very well not be in the "order" that the letters appear on the page. There are no words, sentences, paragraphs, etc, on the page, so the conversion program has to attempt to reconstruct the correct sequence of text from the PostScript instructions that contain the information on how to display the page. This is a highly complex process which may or may not work successfully, depending on how the page is encoded.