Pinch and Zoom PDFs for phones and tablets

Hi,
I can pinch and zoom PDF files on my phone / tablet.
However when doing this I would like the document to automatically reformat to fit the screen horizontally.
This would enable me to read a PDF enlarged to a text size comfortable to me AND only have to scroll up and down and not left and right.
I am partially sighted and the most frustrating thing when reading PDFs on a phone or tablet is the need to scroll right to carry on reading a page and then scroll back and then a little down and then right again and so on.
Other APPS such as BBC NEWS when enlarged with pinching the screen autonatically reformat to fit as many words as possible horizontally. When I have a file in word format this is also possible for example email attachments that are word files.
But PDFs appear to lack this very basic functionality.
Can you help and make this a possibility for the future if PDFs are currently limited? Or can you please inform me of a method to acheive this now?
Surely a bright spark at Adobe could make this happen and help all those people with short sightedness.
Thank you

This is generally not possible. Unless a PDF has been specifically created to be "accessible" and allows dynamic reformating, it will never change its appearance. The whole point of the PDF format is to retain appearance across different paltforms and devices, after all. It simply works different from HTML.
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