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mrmikel · 10-07-2014, 08:30 PM

You are looking for what is pretty much impossible, fixed layout in an reflowable format. Some machines allow attempts at it.

When the reader presses the increase size button, the formatting will go out the window.

PDF is a format that is fixed and will work if laid out for the appropriate size of your device's screen. But it is not a format which is accepted by the major publishing houses for ebooks.

Any conversion from PDF as a Optical Character Recognition will have a least an error per page, often many more. Converting PDF to Word doesn't change that. Working from an original Word document which has not been OCR'ed will be much better and is supported by Toxaris's add in as well as Atlantis Word Processor. Even so, if you want fixed layout in epubs you are padding with a spoon upstream.

10-07-2014, 08:30 PM	#48
mrmikel Color me gone Posts: 2,089 Karma: 1445295 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Oregon Coast Device: PRS-300	You are looking for what is pretty much impossible, fixed layout in an reflowable format. Some machines allow attempts at it. When the reader presses the increase size button, the formatting will go out the window. PDF is a format that is fixed and will work if laid out for the appropriate size of your device's screen. But it is not a format which is accepted by the major publishing houses for ebooks. Any conversion from PDF as a Optical Character Recognition will have a least an error per page, often many more. Converting PDF to Word doesn't change that. Working from an original Word document which has not been OCR'ed will be much better and is supported by Toxaris's add in as well as Atlantis Word Processor. Even so, if you want fixed layout in epubs you are padding with a spoon upstream.