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Framemaker - $900 Plus $150 for the Microsoft license. Sorry, but those tools are extremely poor value. Try again. ActiveSync - useful only if you use useless WinCE devices. Again, poor value. |
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04-17-2008, 09:19 PM | #63 |
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http://www.baselinesoftware.com/inde...FQPJsgodXljS4g I haven't timed it, but I can read a book all day on my Pocket PC and still have battery left over at the end of the day. However, we are not debating the suitability of a Pocket PC as a reading device. I think we all prefer to read our books on the electronic readers we've purchased (for me the Cybook), but since I can't read my PDF books on the Cybook, I am happy I can read them on my Pocket PC. |
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04-18-2008, 05:26 AM | #66 | |
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$130 for the software, plus $150 for the Microsoft license.
Still a poor deal over OpenOffice.org which is free. Quote:
But this little difference between my experience and yours demonstrates the problems with PDF. PDFs simply do not live up to their promise of displaying nicely on every device. |
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ON the contrary quite a few on this site are happy with a PPC for reading their ebooks I am one ..so is Steve Jordan.
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04-18-2008, 06:59 AM | #68 |
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@rlauzon, you can pick at these prices all day long, but if the software creates proper tagged PDFs, they are doing their job. If your cheaper software doesn't create proper tagged PDFs, it is not doing a good job. That's not the fault of the format, that's the fault of your cheaper software.
Why don't you just say that using PDFs properly is too expensive for your tastes, instead of calling PDFs the format from Hell, and leave it at that? (I can readily understand that, as I wouldn't mind using InDesign for PDF creation, but the overall cost--I'd have to update my PC to run it--has kept me clear of it, too.) Also, since my time negates reading for more than 5 hours at a time, there's absolutely nothing wrong with my being able to read for 5 hours on a PDA. Why don't you just say you sit around reading for 20-30 hours straight, away from any conceivable source of power, making a PDA unacceptable for you, and leave it at that? These are not good enough reasons to attack PDFs. They just amount to your personal preference against PDF (and, I suspect, Adobe). |
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Is there any software that can convert a text based PDF so it is perfect in that no run on words, no paragraph splits, no joined paragraphs, no issues with fi and fl, no constant headers/footers to have to remove and anything else that normally can go wrong with a PDF conversion? Also the conversion has to keep all the styles as well.
Does such software exist? if not, then using PDF thinking that since it's unprotected it will be easy to convert then would be poor thinking since it's would always have the risk of a conversion that may contain mistakes due to the conversion process. |
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