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Gordon Henderson wrote: ...
PDF is useful for nothing.You may not like it, but it's out there and not going away. It's also an open standard based on postScript (which, again, is too heavyweight for an eBook IMO)
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I was thinking more of HTML - works perfectly and doesn't demand a page width if used properly. My last job involved working on WEB accessibility for a council. I would say that 99.9% of the documents they produced in DOC or PDF from violated the required accessibility rules.These were easily converted into free flowing HTML. They displayed perfectly well on screen - no need to print no need to consider printing. The HTML documents were so much more useful.. All you need is a trivial markup language and a nice display...Now where can we find that?It's called [n,t]roff ... I wrote a clone of troff onceuponatime. Wish I still had that code...
Almost all books I read would loose very little and gain lots to be in HTML. Alas most PDF etc has to be printed* which means its UNFIT for a computer, and out of date and insecure before its finished printing. Information management is so much easier if you ditch that dinosaur paper format. Or are your ideas only 210*297mm ?
Tom te tom te tom* if I've got document I might refer to a lot I sometimes cut and paste it into a set of HTML files so I don't have to keep crawling to the index and back as there seems to be only two people in the world actually put working hyperlinks in PDF docs.
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