The new ACM format is attempting to fix this for academic publications. I believe it generates HTML and should look better across devices (and be more accessible).
I haven't seen that happen yet though...
I haven't seen that happen yet though...
A "multi-view" format that could be viewed as full page layout (both scrolling and paged), small screen linear, audio-only linear, or machine-readable (full, deterministic text sequence, tabular data, alt-text and tags for images and charts, etc.) All pages, images, fonts, etc., would remain encapsulated within a single file.
The closest I've seen is the latest ebook format, but that doesn't have anything close to the power of PDF to lay out a proper textbook or magazine article page.