[bhl]

That’s the point of PDFs and EPUBs. If you want resizable PDFs, use EPUB which is an organized and compressed version of HTML.

Edit.

I think the reason you lose quality during conversion is because without the original LaTeX code, you’re just importing copied images of math. If you have access to the original content, then you can maintain quality regardless of window size. One example is arxivvanity which uses the original TeX files on arxiv to rerender in HTML. What do you do without the source code? You can either try vectorizing the images to get scalable SVGs, which depends on heuristics and doesn’t recover typeset perfectly. Or perhaps reverse engineer the formulas with OpenCV or another ML method; this one is pretty hard to do and I’ve only seen mathpix, a paid service, which does this.

Either case it’s a strong argument that content should be separate from content rendering which is why I like TeXMe as a concept and why people should avoid PDFs.

[oefrha]

> without the original LaTeX code, you’re just importing copied images of math

Not necessarily. See MathML.