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Originally Posted by pdurrant
It's really very disappointing.
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While in one way, yes, it is a bit dissapointing, in another it's an example of the power of the flexibility of the format. Your ePub should be rendered reasonably well irrespective of the display or engine on the device, that is the power of these formats, this means that manufacturers can offer a whole swathe of devices and not be limited to a set of output formats that'll inevitably become outdated within the next generation or two of eReaders.
A very good example of what happens when you try to hard-code the formats is what we have when trying to view PDFs on eReaders. I realise people are using reflowable attributes in PDF but really it's like rounding the edges off a rectangular stone to use as a rolling pin.
Paul.