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Originally Posted by jaxx6166
I'm curious as to what exactly the differences are between PDF and ePub..and forgive me if I can't quite understand why everyone seems so excited for ePub? What's so great about that format as opposed to all the others
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PDF is a print-oriented, fixed-layout format. This makes it hard to change the layout of PDF documents when -- for example -- changing the page size but keeping the font size the same.
EPUB is a display-oriented, reflowable format. This makes it easy to produce an EPUB document which will display well on many different display sizes and with many different font sizes.
People are excited about EPUB in particular over other reflowable e-book formats because it's the first (a) open e-book standard (b) based on existing specifications (XHTML, etc.) (c) with actual industry support. Well, that's why I'm excited about it anyway
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-Marshall