When will there be a COLOR iLiad with larger screen (and higher resolution)? - Page 2

wallcraft · 06-30-2007, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

... once DE is finished for LInux, there should be no reason academic papers to be produced in PDF format. If these papers are meant to be read more then printed, then DE will be the way to publish them in the future ...

Currently, the majority of academic papers are meant to be printed. The PDF version is essentially an electronic way to deliver a "re-print" copy of the paper, exactly as it appears in the journal. Publishers are comfortable with this approach, and put a lot of effort into getting a consistent look for their journals. A reflowable format makes layout less controllable. Another problem is back issues. It has taken a long time to get old journals into electronic form, and there presumably would be no extra revenue for an EPUB version over a PDF version. So EPUB would only be viable for current and future papers, unless "good enough" automatic PDF to EPUB conversion is available at low cost.

nekokami · 07-05-2007, 12:38 AM

Quite a few of the back issues are also in image PDF, as opposed to text PDF, being essentially scanned copies. Converting those to text is non-trivial, especially if there are tables that change page orientation, complex formulae, etc. I think it will be a long time before such documents are available in a format like DE, if ever. It might be financially worthwhile for some to be converted, but probably not most of the ones that were never properly converted to text (i.e. OCR'd) in the first place.

JSWolf · 07-14-2007, 07:53 AM

PDF is great for printing. But for academic papers where you want/need to be able to search for stuff, it's not good. Especially because of the electronic copies that are images. If they are forced to change to text based solutions then it will be that much easier for all of us.

ig88 · 07-16-2007, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

PDF is great for printing. But for academic papers where you want/need to be able to search for stuff, it's not good.

That's not a problem/limitation of the PDF format, but with the method used to create the PDF.

PDF is a perfectly searchable format.

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07-05-2007, 12:38 AM	#17
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Quite a few of the back issues are also in image PDF, as opposed to text PDF, being essentially scanned copies. Converting those to text is non-trivial, especially if there are tables that change page orientation, complex formulae, etc. I think it will be a long time before such documents are available in a format like DE, if ever. It might be financially worthwhile for some to be converted, but probably not most of the ones that were never properly converted to text (i.e. OCR'd) in the first place.

07-14-2007, 07:53 AM	#18
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 73,998 Karma: 128903378 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	PDF is great for printing. But for academic papers where you want/need to be able to search for stuff, it's not good. Especially because of the electronic copies that are images. If they are forced to change to text based solutions then it will be that much easier for all of us.

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