Re:Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
by MichaelGG on Thursday May 04, 2017 @06:27PM
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And is the scourge of every paper I want to read on my Kindle. Everyone publishes their PDFs and there seems to be no reliable way to reflow them.
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Re:Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
by r00fus on Thursday May 04, 2017 @07:18PM
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Which is why ePub and other digital book formats exist. I'm glad there is a format that prioritizes WYSIWYG over reflow (though the part of the spec where the introduced scripting is a bit dodgy)
Re:Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
by CoryG89 on Thursday May 04, 2017 @06:39PM
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The "Reading Mode" on the Adobe's Acrobat app for Android does a pretty good job of reflowing most of the PDFs I've thrown at it.
Re:Edge displays “123456” in PDF but prints “114447”
by jdmichal on Thursday May 04, 2017 @06:49PM
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Should be able to easily reflow text as long as it's using newline operators (T*, ', "). Might still need some basic heuristics for paragraph breaks. But much better than the alternative of attempting to correlate individual lines of text together based on positioning.