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Originally Posted by JSWolf
One thing I notice with a lot of eBooks made with InDesign is that some of the font sizes are just odd and not correct. In the last InDesign ePub I cleaned up, some subtext was made with a size of (roughtly) .77em. That's just too small. There's no need of it.
What works in terms of font sizes doesn't always work in ePub.
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I agree it is very annoying, but that is one of the glorious things about ebooks, the little button that lets you raise font size. Imagine having to read a physical book that had tiny font... YUCK!
And I also agree that the default body text should be 1em while the rest (headings/footnotes) is scaled up/down appropriately.
When you get those smaller font-sizes, I am thinking that is just some sort of pt -> em conversion just so that the ratios of the different texts stays the same. Sometimes you see those crazy .66666689em, and that just HAS to be done by some sort of conversion. No human would ever use that kind of nonsense as a font size.
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Originally Posted by Turtle91
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Also, the headers being 1/4-1/2 down the page is ridiculous for eBooks.
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This one - not so much. This is pure styling. We all know YOU don't like it Jon, but some people (authors/editors) do. |
I agree it is a styling choice (there is a lot of reasoning/ratios that goes into whitespace in page design)... And they typically use whitespace to keep the golden amount of characters per line (and make the two-page spread look great).
In the case of paper, some people prefer lots of whitespace over others (from what I have gathered over the years, it seems like European books tend to have a lot more whitespace than American books).
Don't know how much sense many of those arguments make in ebooks though...
Personally, I tend to err on the side of JSWolf. You don't have a set page size, and devices can get small (think cellphone), so it is pretty stupid when a huge chunk of real estate is wasted.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What I think needs to be done is once the book is said to be finished, the eBook edition needs to be slip off and fixed up to remove the print book things that do not work in an eBook.
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I agree... although maybe I am biased. :P
And I definitely agree with you when you promote the idea that "good Print fonts =/= good Ebook fonts". I personally just leave as much as I can up to the user's/device's defaults unless it is integral (need a very specific character/symbol, etc. etc.).