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Is there a specific issue that you’ve found doesn’t work with reflowable format?
Cheers, Dion
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Issues were: the figcaptions in figures not sticking with the images, "hero" - images not visible next to chapter openings, images not bleeding of the sides of the pages, chapters not starting on recto pages, no running headers or pagenumbers...
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So, in other words, the client didn't understand eBooks, resisted all attempts at client education and basically wanted an ePDF, but instead, got this? I mean, everything you've just listed is what does not work (all the time or reliably or like print) in reflowable, of course. But you undertook the job anyway? And made a fixed-layout ePUB, from scratch, it seems, even though generally speaking, that doesn't work?
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I have a flow version of the book, perfectly accaptable to me, but not to my client.
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Well...then I guess she gets a book that doesn't work. That's how that goes. I don't mean to sound unsympathetic and I know that I do, but part of what we all do, out here in the wild, is educate them about what they can and can't have. And
now she has a book
that won't actually work on most eReaders. I assume that when you discussed this with her, you disclosed everything--what works in reflow, what doesn't and you warned her, you told her that you couldn't guarantee that it would work across the spectrum of devices, right? She understood that she was taking that risk?
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Essentially, the client wanted a copy of the printed boek, which I created successfully in the end, apart from these strangely broken characters...
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Well...you say it's successful, but
it's not even working in iBooks, which is the most forgiving, the most supportive, of fixed-layout. I'm really not trying to be a PITA here, but...you seem to have split the baby in a way that says it's
not going to work. This isn't from INDD, right, so you don't have the expectation that it
should work in iBooks. Does it work on a NookHD? What about a Droid tablet? What happens on other devices? Kobo? ????
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