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Originally Posted by starrigger
Re: the epub format, the sum total of my experience with it is the not-quite-finished markup that Marshall has done for NC. It looks fabulous, because he actually replicated the print book design. But I only viewed it on the Sony desktop viewer, which then crashed. I did notice that the file size was more like a pdf file than like the other ebook formats.
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Well, I *still* don't have Internet access at home (my ISP says maybe another week (!!!)) and I have to
something with my time... Having already defined the markup and most of the stylesheet for the book design made doing
Strange Attractors much easier though.
The size is actually the same reason even well-made all-text PDFs will be a bit hefty -- embedded fonts. Although I agree with Hadrian that users
should be able to select fonts (ideally through a generic user stylesheet mechanism), there are two issues: (1) perhaps an oversight, but the OPS spec doesn't promise that the system will have
any fonts available or be able to display any particular range of Unicode characters. (2) I, er, really don't like the look of the default typeface provided by DE, especially it's italics. I actually think this is a "conspiracy" on the part of Adobe to convince people to buy attractive typefaces from them in order to embed
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