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Old 04-15-2017, 05:29 PM   #19
John F
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Originally Posted by robko View Post
Again, that oversimplifies it a bit, but that is broadly correct.



An OCR'd or converted PDF is in theory reflowable. Once you start adding graphics and photos that makes reflow problematic (since they can't easily be reflowed). Epub is designed for reflow so obviously it would be the preferred format, but realistically turning an academic book into epub will be challenging (and it won't be possible to keep the page formatting and page numbering). PDF is designed to keep formatting etc the way it was originally designed which makes it less than ideal for reflow.
Couldn't page numbers be kept using a page-map for the epub (not impossible, but probably tedious)?
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