Sugar unusable as an e-book reader

Albert Cahalan acahalan at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 21:52:14 EDT 2008


S Page writes:

> HTML in Browse integrates cleanly with the library/home page,
> can use advanced CSS for attractive layout, takes you from a
> link to a document without the download-Journal-Read steps,
> avoids PDF's fundamental broken-ness rendering a paper page
> on a screen, has JavaScript to add interactivity and features
> like annotations, etc. etc. It's the future. But PDF is
> certainly an important legacy format.

You need an update on PDF. Here you go:

PDF supports hyperlinks. You can browse from document to document.

PDF fully supports non-paged documents. Document formats that
can't support both paged and non-paged documents are the ones
that have fundamental brokenness.

PDF has JavaScript to add interactivity and features like
annotations, etc. etc. (not that I agree that JavaScript
belongs in a document format, but PDF supports it)



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