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Consider this: A well designed — yeah, DESIGNED — publication can inform, educate and even move to tears. When I design a document — as opposed to toss something in a word processor and use the default template design — I don’t want it “transformed.” It’s a serious work of art with every speck of ink or white space embodying intentional meaning in its placement. ANYway… your complaint ISN’T about PDFs. It’s about the desire some people have to cram a pad of paper into a pocket-wallet: it can be done, but the paper’s gonna crumple. As the space matures and screen sizes/resolutions start to shake out a bit, you’ll find appropriately sized PDF (or other design language) documents widely available and popularized. I think it’s a mistake to discount them. |
For a variety of technical and practical reasons, I don’t consider PDFs to be a good reading experience on any platform. It’s also not possible to universally transform them well, or even acceptably, to any screen smaller than their intended print size: letter-sized paper, usually. The Kindle DX comes close, but it’s a large, specialized device that’s not as well suited for the mass market as ebook readers with screens in the 6” range.
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