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Originally Posted by CommanderROR
Why do we need a new format?
Why not just use HTML or PDF, formats almost all devices already understand?
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PDA's might be able to "understand" PDF files, but there's no way that they can display them satisfactorily if they include images or tables, whereas with html you can convert a document in iSilo, Sunrise or HandStory and be able to read both text and tables.
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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
I agree that a good ebook format would be a big help.
Something that is:
one file, no folders attached (the failing of html, opf),
zipped or zippable for conserving space
flexible (access a page at a time as opposed to whole document) and as small as possible (the failing of pdf/djvu/fb2),
allows interactivity (clickable table contents, hyperlinks..) (the failing of rtf/txt),
allows diagrams, equations, tables (you can do it in rtf/html/doc, but only pdf/djvu/latex do it well)
allows customization of fonts, colours
allows decent pagination and navigation
allows multiple language encodings
as nonproprietary as possible
I have no idea if some of the above requirements are not contradictory but I wish that OpenReader/DotReader and whatever IDPF comes up will actually become available and be evaluated by the market as soon as possible.
Liviu
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I agree with most of that (though I don't actually know that djvu and latex are), except the statement that PDF does diagrams, equations and tables well. It does on a pc, but is hopeless on a pda.