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Old 12-14-2010, 11:34 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
Of course it is the formats fault in some sense. As far as i know there is no mandatory way to distinguish between a re-flowable and a non-re-flowable pdf. So since that is not built in in the format we will automatically get the situation that different tools will export in different ways. Also the lack of a free implementation of re-flow have been a hinder and this lack is indirectly related to the format.
One can scan the pbook, convert scanned pages to PNG images, add a perfectly standard xhtml wrapper around each and every scanned page, and produce an ePub that completely goes against anything that we expect of the "inherently" re-flowable format. Except for the file size, one could not tell the difference until it is tried on a reader with the smaller screen. It might show just fine on iPod or iRex.
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