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Originally Posted by verydeepwater
The latest version of this software available through Adobe Creative Cloud includes a feature to export to fixed layout EPUB.
I was wondering if people had tried this and what their opinion is.
At a superficial first glance, I was very impressed, but upon opening up the resultant EPUB, the code looked pretty horrendous, with span tags for each and every word - to give them absolute positioning. The result looked fine when viewed on iBooks - live text positioned around and over graphics, exactly as you would want, but I would think it would be almost impossible to edit or update the resultant xhtml files. This software makes it possible to produce a fixed layout EPUB almost effortlessly but I wonder how stable the result would be?
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I'll tell you this much:
a) I agree, 100% on the resulting code. It scares my pants off.
b) if one more person emails me with some horribly-laid out beginner effort in INDD, and tells me (not asks) that "[I] should be able to make a FF ePUB with the push of a button, and would [I] do it for a few bucks," my head is going to freaking explode right here, all over MR. Not that it's MR's doing, mind you, but it's the ONLY place I have that I can be myself. And then they want me to "auto-magically make it for Kindle, too," for like, $25.00.
I want to blow up Adobe and their "plug-ins" and promotional crap. I mean...
Hitch (being a teeny, weeny bit cranky. I know, the shock is horrifying).