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Originally Posted by mrmikel
See if you can find out how to do what you want without tables. Tables are difficult in epubs, especially in smaller devices. The window for smaller devices is 800 vertical by 600 wide. BUT, if you use text to do create a table, it will expand as the size of text is increased and will likely be cut off. I have spent hours shrinking text size and eliminating padding just to fit a table into 600 wide. But it is not pretty, however useable it might be.
Unless it must be searchable, consider using an image of the table. It is one heck of a lot less work and is less likely to have troubles. You can center an image pretty easily, but it takes a witch doctor and voodoo incantations to center a table if you can at all. I found a way to center one I was using, but doing do knocked out all dividing lines in the table....that is the sort of thing you can be up against.
If you must have formatting consider PDFs. They will always be formatted exactly the same way. The trouble is if it is beautiful at full size 8.5"x11", it will be miniscule on an e-reader.
Wolfie is right in his question, how big the screen? If you are doing it for work or for a bunch of friends, all with ipads, there are a lot more pixels available to you. If some must read it on a smart phone, that is a whole different proposition.
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It is unfortunate that coded (not image) tables can't be rotated for best width (when needed).
I think people get
stuck in their orientation thinking.
I know that when I take pictures, the camera gets held whatever way
to get the shot (only rarely, does it get upside down
)