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Originally Posted by dwig
They would have imported the author's WP file into a page layout program that can better deal the the niceties of typesetting and layout that are necessary to decent quality print.
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Right, I implicitly included that step in the second one (create PDF).
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With recent books, it would generally be that program that programs native file that would be used for the generation of the ebook and not the "for output only" PDF.
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But that program's file may be unusable in practice, as you say, or even lost ("we already have the PDF, why would we need anything else?").