I’d love it if any PDF reader could simply reformat PDFs to be single column so they would be viewable on mobile devices.
Essentially, as if they had never been written in PDF in the first place. Does anyone know if such a thing exists?
Essentially, as if they had never been written in PDF in the first place. Does anyone know if such a thing exists?
Instead of modifying the PDF file (which kind of is against the point of PDF files in the first place, the point is the file looks the same in all devices) we have a ruler which can automatically highlight the line being read. If the line is larger than the window, then we move horizontally so the next part of the line is shown. If the line is such that it is larger than the current window but is smaller than the next horizontal movement, a red notch is displayed in the ruler which marks the location of the line which will be moved to the leftmost side of the window.
I know I explained it poorly, here is a video which should clarify: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYUYMhvwN3U
I, as a reader, don't care about this. I want the document to be the most readable on all devices.
I've seen others propose to replace PDF in favor of more dynamic formats like EPUB. But I wonder if it wouldn't be more pratical to standardize tags and proporties that can be written to the PDFs, so that readers are better able to handle them.
Note: they send your document to the cloud for processing.