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epub is the way to go I think. PDF is an overengineered abomination. It nicely serves the purpose of "there is only one and exactly one way to render this", but then again, just about so does an image.

I also think that, with more love, epub could get there too. It's not an easy problem, but if we can crack SHA-1 I'm sure we can crack this one too :)

I don't see how epub can be pixel-perfect. It's almost as much a markup format, as fb2. Clearly more explanation of how should it be done is in order.

Pixel perfection is not necessary for 99.999% of the cases PDF is used in.

That's just ridiculous statement.

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