Misconceptions duly addressed:
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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
Edited to add: PDF is the worst format for ebooks, as it is inflexible.
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In fact, an ADA-compliant tagged PDF is very flexible, capable of wrapping to the screen size used, and adjusting font sizes to suit. Most PDF generators are not equipped to create a tagged PDF, but in applications like Word, when you save the file, look for
PDF/A Compliant in the Save As PDF options.
Despite the naysayers around MR, the fact is that PDF is still an incredibly popular format for ebooks and other documents. Don't let the guys here tell you PDFs aren't ebooks... they are just unpopular with people who use ebook readers, because PDFs are rarely optimized for readers. But I read them all the time, presently on a Nook Color, and properly-tagged PDFs work just fine. Of course, anyone who reads PDFs on a PC or Mac will have no trouble reading them.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
eBook common sense 101:
Lesson 1. Never use Word.
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Use Word all you want. Yes, it tends to contain a lot of extraneous code that you don't need when you convert. But generally, you can do a simple copy and paste from Word (as opposed to
File>Import tools) to other conversion apps, like Sigil, and that extraneous code gets removed. I usually copy and paste from Word into Dreamweaver to get cleaned HTML for web and conversion uses... then copy and paste that into Sigil to create ePubs... easy.
Bottom line, use whatever word processing app makes it easiest for you to write.