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Old 06-05-2008, 11:44 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel View Post
just one point though about the layout process, if they are using Adobe Indesign apparently you can now export directly to ePub, which should facilitate the creation of ebooks parallel to the print books considerably. if they are using Quark, they should switch to Indesign anyway (sorry, i really hate Quark, it's a personal preference. i'll stop now).
They should be using a free tool, such as TeX. Then they would at least have the actual text content in a text-only format, quite easy to retrieve. Also they would reduce production costs, as they wouldn't have to pay for software licenses and upgrades...
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