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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Pages is disaster. Don't use it.
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Jon, to be fair, I'm not sure it's Pages,
per se.
I think it's about the same as all the rest--altho, to be fair, it is a
bit more disastrous when it's trying to compensate for ad hoc styles created by users that want something that "just works." That don't use styles and so on.
But if you get a file (Pages) from someone that's relatively good at using Styles/headings and the like, mostly, it's about on par with the others.
(To me, this is like that oft-repeated mantra "the HTML output from Word is HORRRRIBLE!
Oh, the humanity! The world as we know it will end, if you use Word for your book!" and so on, all of which is
utter bollocks.)
Where it
might suffer is in a user mindset that is more "just works" than other pieces of software. But for all I know, my view of it is skewed, because the successful users make their own ePUBs and upload them and don't use companies like mine.
I mean, after all, by and large, I tend to get the writers that do NOT follow the directions, rather than the ones that do. :-)
Hitch