01-20-2024, 03:04 PM | #16 |
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What software allows making fixed layout ePub 3 without having to put in all that really awful code? Thanks.
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That's a trick question, really because the answer is, you can't have both. If you make a fixed layout that would work, on, say, ePUB3/Apple devices, you're stuck with the "junk code" because it is the junk code, specifically placing and floating the px dimension offsets, that makes it fixed-layout for text floating "over" the background. Without it, it could not be fixed-layout and, thus, would not exist. No "junk" code, as you call it, and no fixed layout. The only two other options are:
How else, Jon, would you make a fixed-layout ePUB, with real text, not images of text that were fixed???? Hitch |
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And you really don't want to see what inside a real, not a scan, PDF based on postscript for the text and locations of the text and vector images. Also unlike real ebooks based on HTML the innards need not at all be sequential. PDF is a sort of wrapper with multiple layers and kinds of things in it. The epub 3 fixed layout is sequential and is sort of human readable.
Postscript is a programming language Text can be generated by a program fragment or included as a stream. PDFs can have postscript content that's only easily understood by executing the program. Actual postscript not inside a PDF does a bit more https://paulbourke.net/dataformats/postscript/ Last edited by Quoth; 01-20-2024 at 04:18 PM. Reason: Link |
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They did use Adobe DRM before they bought mobipocket or did azw (before azw3) or before the first Kindle. But you pay Adobe a royalty. Also very long ago the DRM on PDFs was 'broken'. Still trival to save a password free version of a password protected PDF. A company asked me once to develop a way of having a secure PDF for public download rather than their 'watermark'. I explained that such a thing is fantasy. |
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