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Old 05-29-2012, 11:22 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Well we are drifting off topic but of course I would agree PDF is truly fixed format. You can force fully fixed in ePub fixed layout if you wish. I believe the main difference is that ePub is aimed at eBook devices while PDF is aimed at a piece of paper. While it is possible to adjust PDF to the eBook size this is very seldom done while it is required for fixed layout ePub. I really like the ePub 3 method of allowing the user to mix fixed layout and floating layout within the same document. I see real value in this. ePub three also allows you to force the portrait/landscape orientation for a particular page. This opens lots of possibilities.

Most available PDF tools make lousy electronic documents without metadata or TOC, they are truly intended to be printed IMHO.

Dale
We ARE off-topic, but the original topic turned tedious, anyway. We use "fixed-format" for iBooks, Nook (where it's called "ePIB," mind you, and "secretly" made with a clone of iAuthor) and the Fire, for children's books, and for that, I really like it.

I also think it could be useful for LOTS of books we get in here that I just stare at, knowing we'll never get them to work in a reflowable format. Who am I to say that so-and-so's book isn't worth publishing? Fixed-format, reflowable...guys, what's important, what we have to think about and care about, volunteers at DP or disgusting scummy commercial slaves like moi, is that unlike the paper books that we all so painstakingly proof at DP, in an attempt to preserve our written past (and lord knows, they are not all "worth" saving)--is that what we do HERE and now should and will be preserved forever. 100 years from now, barring disaster, no one at DP will have to wonder if that fixed-format kids' book I just did says "fox" or "fix." ;-) Just a thought.

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