Acrobat Pro is (1) expensive and (2) complex, with a steep learning curve. I have over 10 years professional experience with it; I am *comfortable* adding bookmarks, cropping pages, inserting & deleting content, resizing fonts one line of text at a time (because that's how it works), exporting the contents & reformatting them in Word, adding tags, editing tags (a nightmare), changing metadata, and various other tweaks that change ebooks from unwieldy troublesome things to comfortable to read.
I'm willing to help other people learn these things (I have lots of experience because I love doing these things), but I didn't learn them quickly, and getting comfortable with them takes practice. Which I love, and not everyone does. If you don't like tweaky doc editing tricks, it's probably easier to get something like Calibre that lets you convert to another format, and use tools to edit that. Even if it screws up the layout, 'cos editing in Acrobat is often painful.
The big problem with PDFs: They were never intended to be an onscreen format. They were designed for printing, so that what you saw onscreen was what came out on paper. They were specifically made *not* to reflow. They were made to be create-able by dozens of different formats that would all *look* the same in PDF, but have different bits of coding behind them.
PDFs work well *if* they're designed with a page-size that matches the screen you're reading on. I've got dozens of fanfic PDFs I've made for my Reader; they work great. (Which doesn't mean they'd work great for others; I prefer a small font, and making it larger means reflow, which at its best isn't great.) OTOH, reading letter-sized pages with 1" margins on it sucks. I have a couple of quick tweaks I do to make it suck less, but that's about as far as it goes.
(Someday soon I really should do a bunch of pictures of different types of PDFs on my Reader.)
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I'm willing to help other people learn these things (I have lots of experience because I love doing these things), but I didn't learn them quickly, and getting comfortable with them takes practice. Which I love, and not everyone does. If you don't like tweaky doc editing tricks, it's probably easier to get something like Calibre that lets you convert to another format, and use tools to edit that. Even if it screws up the layout, 'cos editing in Acrobat is often painful.
The big problem with PDFs: They were never intended to be an onscreen format. They were designed for printing, so that what you saw onscreen was what came out on paper. They were specifically made *not* to reflow. They were made to be create-able by dozens of different formats that would all *look* the same in PDF, but have different bits of coding behind them.
PDFs work well *if* they're designed with a page-size that matches the screen you're reading on. I've got dozens of fanfic PDFs I've made for my Reader; they work great. (Which doesn't mean they'd work great for others; I prefer a small font, and making it larger means reflow, which at its best isn't great.) OTOH, reading letter-sized pages with 1" margins on it sucks. I have a couple of quick tweaks I do to make it suck less, but that's about as far as it goes.
(Someday soon I really should do a bunch of pictures of different types of PDFs on my Reader.)