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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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