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Old 08-31-2011, 10:43 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by twowheels View Post
PDF is not ebook reader friendly because the format is designed for fixed layout publishing. If your book has a lot of examples where the layout of the page is important, or pictures/diagrams that need to be sufficiently large to make out the details, then PDF might be the appropriate format. If it's mostly text and some example SQL snippets, with some simple inline diagrams, then it'd be much better to publish in ePUB & mobi, which can be read well on basically any device as they're designed to be reflowable.
That's is correct.

The layout is important, that's what I would like to use PDF.

PDF is not an ebook format, but will keep the layout and won't look bad.

But I like the idea of start using the posts first and start compiling those for the book later.
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