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What PDFs are for.My fling with a Sony Reader By: gordonmeyer (15 replies) November 11, 2007 - 11:00am
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What PDFs are for.
PDFs are intended to encapsulate exactly how a document is to be presented. The fonts, colors, and layout are supposed to be exactly the same regardless of what device opens the file.
So how is it a problem that they don’t display correctly on a device with a screen that is the wrong size? How could it be different?
The solution isn’t the break the PDF format and take away the one thing that creators of PDFs take for granted: uniformity of display. The solution is to use some other format.
Perhaps intelligent conversion of PDFs to more display-neutral formats isn’t there yet. But that’s the solution, not devices that mangle and corrupt PDFs.