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Re:The future of education is plain text by CuriouslyC on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @11:56AM (#14545757)
PDFs seem to render poorly on ebook readers.
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Re:The future of education is plain text by Jaruzel on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @01:16PM (#14546496)
Mainly because the layout code (Postscript?) in the PDF file assumes an A4 or US letter sized page. Most PDFs just cannot handle being reflowed.
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Re:The future of education is plain text by pyre on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:20PM (#14547216)
> Mainly because the layout code (Postscript?) in the PDF file assumes an A4 or US letter sized page

Technically, it could be anything. The layout is specified, and everything stems from this.

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Re:The future of education is plain text by ghaff on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:17PM (#14545917)
ebook readers yes. But they can work quite well on full-size tablets.

Kindles etc. are great when you're mostly reading a flow of text. For anything that benefits from design layout -- positioned graphics, sidebars, footnotes, etc. PDF on a 10" tablet is often better.

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Re:The future of education is plain text by leggomylibro on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @12:23PM (#14545970)
Ideally you'd provide a PDF as the most convenient format, but have a latex or similar root file that could be processed into other formats, like maybe .mobi or .epub.
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