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Originally Posted by LadyKate
As long as the text is readable it is not a bad thing to me that the title page spills over when I up the font size. I would suggest setting it up using a moderate font size and let it "go where it may".
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I agree... you reach a point where most of your design decisions will break at extremely large font sizes, and/or extremely small device sizes (cellphone).
It is just up to you to decide on a balance.
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Originally Posted by LadyKate
When the reader has control over font size they can change the appearance of almost the entire book.
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That is the entire point! The reader will read how the reader is most comfortable.. on whatever device they are most comfortable reading on!!
PDF = forcing you to read on a device that is at least X" x Y".
There was also discussion on all of this in this topic about converting math books to EPUB:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=228413
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Originally Posted by mrmikel
What's wrong with the whole thing being an image?
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Text in an image is a horrible idea. It does not scale well at all, and the larger/higher resolution the devices get, the worse those images will become.
The only cases where I can see it might be acceptable is:
- Images of a table, so it can "fit" on a smaller screen.
- Although I prefer to HTMLize all tables.
- This allows them to be searchable/copy/pastable, and scale/display according to user preferences.
- This allows text-to-speech to handle them
- Depending on how the information is laid out, you might want to tweak the tables to try to fit it into a more "vertical" space (the usual recommendation is try not to go beyond 4 columns wide)
- Images of math/formulas
There was some more discussion on Front Matter + Title Pages in this topic:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=228927