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Old 08-09-2008, 02:26 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by jaxx6166 View Post
Okay...so ePub is awesome, and PDF well kind of sucks...right?
I wouldn't say that, PDF is the best solution if you know what your target audience (i.e A4/Letter or CPU monitors). If a PDF is made just for the Sony PRS-505 it will look very nice. Look at sony's manual that is installed on the reader that is PDF and it looks fantastic. The reason for this is when a PDF file is created it is optimized for one size. Typically putting a bigger size PDF to a smaller screen makes the PDF fonts too small to read.

However in the eBook industry has many different targets and the screen size tend to be smaller than the defeacto A4/letter that PDF usally is created for. With ePub and other eBook formats the text is reflowable. The fonts do not shrink they word reflow to maximize the usage of the screen you are reading from.


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Is there any way to convert my PDFs to ePub? My Locke Lamora is really really really really tiny

I suppose I should have headed the warning of "This document is meant to be read with a screen resolution of 1024x768"
There is not tool YET that creates ePub. There is a website that turns HTML to ePub.

So you can use MobiCreate or Calibres' PDF2HTML. Both programs create HTML. From the HTML you can create and ePub tool. In the future both programs plan on creating ePub directly from PDF.

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