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Liquid mode is simply a tool to make it easier to consume PDF content on mobile devices. This is definitely a good thing especially since it is opt-in (you press a button to engage liquid mode in the reader).
The internet already has this. It's called HTML.
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Liquid mode? It looks like a tool to reflow the content in existing PDFs, which are often intentionally not responsive. I don't see how this is similar to HTML.
The AI is required to reconstruct text order in legacy PDF files. Once you have the text, why wouldn't you render it in HTML?
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For many, the point of a PDF is that it appears the same way in all contexts. For device-dependent rendering, we have HTML.
Sadly no one really publishes books as HTML.
I'm especially enraged at the PDF "forms" XFA or whatever that no software on this planet can open except Adobe Reader. And Adobe Reader even on macOS doesn't allow Print to PDF or something else to get a PDF in a "sane" format.
I have to use a fake printer to trick Adobe Reader about this! Incredible!
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For many, the point of a PDF is that it appears the same way in all contexts. For device-dependent rendering, we have HTML.
Sadly no one really publishes books as HTML.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats
(spoiler, most of them are HTML/CSS)
It is nice though.