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Originally Posted by jhowell
If you need fixed layout I suggest that PDF would be a better option then EPUB.
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Yeah...I mean, we've been doing this a long time, my shop. I don't claim, ever, that we're the most cutting-edge shop in the world. We're not, although we try to stay atop certain developments.
But it would be a cold day in hell, or a mighty paycheck, that would tempt me to try to make a One File Rules Them All FXL file. It's just...it's really impossible. You can't do it. I mean...do you design for an iOS full-size iPad? A Mini? What about a Nook? Color Nook? Nook Color HD? Droid tablet? Phone?
A 1:1.3 aspect ratio? (IPad). A 1:1.6 (half the Fires). A 1:1.7? (the other fires). What about every "reader" out there, that resizes itself to fit a screen of (whatever) size? How can that even remotely work? Sure, you can create text boxes--but how do you know if the box will work in environment X?
And if you don't design for a target device or, at the very very least,, aspect ratio,
how the hell can the thing
work, unless all the text--all of it--is images of text, not real text?
(n.b.: we do make
SIMPLE FXL ePUBs, [like, one small paragraph of text on a page, floating over an image] for those folks that come to us with illustrated children's books, that will work in the Kindleverse. It's rare. We do it in unusual circumstances. Nonetheless, nobody should try that without a LOT of FXL experience, because even doing that
is nuts. And every client that now, or ever, got a file like that from us, received 90-bajillionty disclaimers about it working.)
Hitch