[maemo-developers] maemo UI

[From: Erik Hovland]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Hubert Figuiere<hub at figuiere.net> wrote:
> On 06/01/2009 01:49 PM, Erik Hovland wrote:
>>
>> The real bonus points for reading electronic documents is to make evince
>> be
>> small screen aware and make it be able understand page layout so that it
>> focuses
>> away whitespace (like margins). Bonus points if it understands two and
>> three column
>> layouts as well. PDF reading on small devices is the sux0rs.
>
> The real problem is that PDF is not a format for electronic books. Because
> it hardcodes paper size and layout, it is not independant of the media. PDF
> is a format for digital rendering of printouts.
>
> As long as this will not be understood, then the problem will stick.
> (and this also applies to people who think PDF is also for the web)

I totally agree. But as long as this issue is not understood we are stuck w/
lots of ebooks in PDF.

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