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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I agree 100%. There's no way I would be reading a fixed layout eBook. It will either be too small on screen or it won't work. What I want to know is who's stupid idea was to allow ePub3 to support fixed layout when that is the worst idea ever?
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I downloaded the Money Alchemy file--there is NO REASON for this to be fxl. That's absolutely daft and asinine. Any competent formatter could take this file, make a reflowable and have it look 98% like the paperback. (n.b.--that comment about a competent formatter, unkauth,
is not aimed at you in any way; it's just that I see a
LOT of books that show up on my doorstep, battered and bruised, poor things, from being made by inept Fiverrs or whatever and so, I'm qualifying my comment. I know that this as FXL isn't
your doing.)
Sure--it has text boxes.
So what? She needs to get over it. If the formatter can make them work, super. If not, use fleurons or hr's or whatever, to distinguish the boxed content. (Speaking frankly, as a proper book designer, all those text boxes, one right after another, is not fab, anyway.)
Go with the flow...as they say.
(should that be, "May the Flow Be With You?")
Hitch