PDF rendering on iPhone

I found an answer to my question elsewhere and I wanted to add a reply here to help others who might have this question. Thanks to Gary over at macmost.com for this answer.

"So the whole purpose of PDF documents is that you cannot change things like the font size and have the text flow differently. Before the PDF document, it was a big problem. Any formatted document would look different if opened in different apps on different platforms.

Adobe created PDF to solve this problem. It was a big deal when it first arrived. You could finally create a form, resume, brochure, post or an entire book and be sure of what it would look like when someone else opened it. You could say: line 17 of page 92 and it would be the same text as anyone else saw on line 17 page 92. If you put a shape or image on a page, it would be in the same position and look the same everywhere.

That is why the ePub format was created. Its main purpose is to provide a document in a way where the text can be resize and re-flowed as needed. There are a few other formats that compete with ePub as well.

So your best bet is to see if the documents you want are in an ePub format. If the PDF document you have is just text, you can always open it in Preview, select all of the text, paste it into a text document and read that. You can even paste it into Pages, export as ePub, and then bring it into your Books app library for an even better adjustable reading experience."